SD2172. Lydia Maria Child to Lucy Osgood & Mary Osgood

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 354 (in part).

Wayland,

June 12th 1858.

… It is curious how you have found me out. I have always known that George Sand was my twin sister … I mean with allowance for the difference occasioned by one of us being born in France, and the other in New England; and I, by no means, presume to claim such close affinity with her remarkable genius. … Did you ever see Elizabeth Browning’s lines to her? …

Publication: The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, ed. Patricia G. Holland and Milton Meltzer, Kraus Microform, Millwood, New York, 1980, letter 1062.

Manuscript: Cornell University.

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