SD2227. Lydia Maria Child to Sarah Blake Shaw

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 351 (in part).

Wayland,

Jan 2d 1859.

… Have you read Legends and Lyrics by Miss Proctor? She seems to me the best woman-poet in the language after Mrs. Browning. Her words seemed to me so full of life and strength, and tenderness and consolation, that I sought for them at thirteen bookstores, through dreadfully sloshy walking. Others must have admired them as much as I did; for every copy in Boston was sold. …

Publication: The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, ed. Patricia G. Holland and Milton Meltzer, Kraus Microform, Millwood, New York, 1980, letter 1089.

Manuscript: Harvard University.

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