SD2704. Thomas Gold Appleton to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 305 (in part).
London
June 28, 1864
… A splendid dinner the other day at the Benzons’; a better I never ate. I sat between Browning and young Lytton, and had Ernst, the composer, and Louis Blanc opposite. It was very pleasant. Browning asked after you and George Curtis, and spoke with much feeling of Hawthorne, whom he knew well. He evidently has the very highest opinion of his abilities. …
Text: Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Samuel Longfellow (Boston, 1887), p. 72.
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