SD2510. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell to Charles Eliot Norton
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 310 (in part).
46 Plymouth Grove
Tuesday, August 28th 1861
My dear Mr Norton,
I was going to write to you yesterday, when the post came in, & brought me three American letters …
Oh, were not you sorry about Mrs Browning’s death! I wrote to Mr Story to enquire all particulars & it seems he wrote me a full account; but the letter is lost so I know little more than the bare fact. …
Publication: The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell, ed. J.A.V. Chapple and Arthur Pollard (Manchester, 1966), pp. 664–667.
Manuscript: Harvard University.
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