SD2434. Fanny Appleton Longfellow to Emmeline Austin Wadsworth

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 365 (in part).

[Cambridge, Mass.]

February 12[–17] 1861

… My father is very feeble this winter, and I cannot but feel that his useful and beloved life will not …

Such a charming sketch I saw the other day at [Hamilton] Wild’s (the painter’s) of the [William Wetmore] Storys and Brownings and old Savage Landor reading and serving al fresco at Siena, with the little Browning boy with his long curls driving, in the background, the two little Story boys as his ponies. Think of a summer palace at Siena for one hundred dollars a year! They retreat there from the heat of Rome. …

Text: Mrs. Longfellow: Selected Letters and Journals, ed. Edward Wagenknecht (New York, 1956), pp. 233–235 (in part).

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