SD2229. Lydia Maria Child to Marianne Cabot Silsbee
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 351 (in part).
Wayland,
Jan. 4th 1859.
… Have you read Miss Proctor’s Legends and Lyrics? I think no woman poet equals her, except Elizabeth Browning. She has almost as much depth and strength as Mrs. Browning, and far more smoothness of language. …
Publication: The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, ed. Patricia G. Holland and Milton Meltzer, Kraus Microform, Millwood, New York, 1980, letter 1091.
Manuscript: American Antiquarian Society.
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