SD2661. Annie Adams Fields to Diary

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 365 (in part).

[Boston]

Monday, Nov. 23 [1863]

The day exquisite as early spring and yet with the ripe haze and richness of the autumn. …

Sophia May Eckley has become our neighbor. She seems one mass of pretention and affectation yet Mrs Browning wrote to her she says two hundred letters and received her as a friend during four years. She wears a dog upon her arm[,] dresses à l’anglaise and rails at her native city as though she had never seen so outlandish a district before. She says she has a “literary niche” in England. I can’t help wishing she would then step up into it and stand there.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Massachusetts Historical Society.

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