Letter, 1856 Apr. 21.

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Letter, 1856 Apr. 21.

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Letter written by Browning, from Paris, France, to George William Curtis (member of the Brook Farm community in West Roxbury, Mass., and later editor of Harpers magazine), thanking Curtis for books and letters sent to the Brownings in Paris and congratulating him on his engagement to Anna Shaw.

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Fruitlands Museums (Harvard, Mass.)

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Curtis, George William, 1824-1892

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George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of New Englander ancestry. A Republican, he spoke in favor of African-American equality and civil rights. Curtis, the son of George and Mary Elizabeth (Burrill) Curtis, was born in Providence on February 24, 1824. His mother died when he was two. At six he was sent with his elder brother to school in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, where he remained for fi...

Curtis, Anna Shaw

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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet and translator. Born on March 6, 1806, Barrett Browning became proficient in Greek, Latin, French, and other European languages. At the age of eleven she wrote a verse "epic" in four books of rhyming couplets, "The Battle of Marathon," which was privately printed in 1820 at her father's expense. She went on to write such works as "An essay on mind," "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh." In September of 1846, she secretly marr...