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SD2402.  William Wetmore Story to William Makepeace Thackeray

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 359 (in part).

Siena–

Septr 22. 1860.

My dear Thackeray

Here are some verses, which, at the suggestion of Mrs Browning, I send to you for the Cornhill. I don’t at all know whether they will serve your purpose, but in view of the general interest now felt in Italy perhaps you may like to publish them– If you reject them as Editor, will you be kind enough as Friend to do me the favor to send them to some other magazine or paper, so that they may be printed somewhere or other– …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library, Gordon N. Ray Bequest.

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