Autograph letter signed : Val d'Aosta, Italy, to [Richard] Grant White, 1883 Sept. 18.

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Autograph letter signed : Val d'Aosta, Italy, to [Richard] Grant White, 1883 Sept. 18.

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Expressing approval of White's edition of Browning's poems, quoting Dr. Johnson (with the proper variation): "it does not become me to bandy compliments with my Critic," and adding, "but I should feel sorry if all the years that have gone by since I wrote the poems you most sympathize with--years abundant enough in experiences--were barren in results to either what I am or what I do. I hope I should not continue to attempt producing, if I did not fancy there something new to say." He comments on the beauty and solitude of Val d'Aosta.

1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm. + with envelope.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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