'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point' (Poetical Works, ii. 192). It was first printed in a collection called The Liberty Bell, for sale at the Boston National Anti-slavery Bazaar of 1848. It was separately printed in England in 1849 as a small pamphlet, which is now a rare bibliographical curiosity.

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'Critical Kit-Kats,' by E. Gosse, p. 2 (1896).

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A list of the works composing Balzac's Comédie Humaine is attached to this letter for Miss Mitford's benefit.

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Miss E.F. Haworth (several letters to whom are given farther on) was an old friend of Robert Browning's, and published a volume of verse in 1847, to which this passage seems to allude.