" You are kind to me in many ways, and I would willingly know as much of your intellectual habits as you teach me of your genial feelings. This ‘Pathfinder’ (what an excellent name for an American journal!) I also owe to you, with the summing up of your performances in it, and with a notice of Mr. Browning’s ‘Blot on the Scutcheon,’ which would make one poet furious (the ‘infelix Talfourd’) and another a little melancholy — namely, Mr. Browning himself. There is truth on both sides, but it seems to me hard truth on Browning. I do assure you I never saw him in my life — do not know him even by correspondence — "

― Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning