SD2291. Lydia Maria Child to Harriet G. Hosmer

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 364 (in part).

Wayland,

Oct. 5th 1859.

Dear Harriet,

I was overjoyed to receive your letter. Ant the photographs! …

I am very sorry to see, by the papers, that Mrs. Browning is very ill. I hope her inspired soul will not quit the body for a long time to come, for if she is like the average of spirits, the poetry she will tip through tables won’t be a tenth part so eloquent, as what she wrote on earth! …

Publication: The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, ed. Patricia G. Holland and Milton Meltzer, Kraus Microform, Millwood, New York, 1980, letter 1119.

Manuscript: Radcliffe Institute.

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