SD2693. William Wetmore Story to Charles Eliot Norton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 302 (in part).

[Rome]

April 12. 1864.

Dear Charles

I was delighted to hear a word from you the other day after so long a silence …

I have modelled from memory a bust of Mrs Browning for her brother, & have had the good fortune to achieve a likeness which while it is natural is agreeable. The face as you know was not adapted to sculpture, but I have managed to make it pleasing without losing the likeness or the character. So, at least her friends say. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Harvard University.

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