[Margaret Fuller letter to the Broadway Journal]
Published: 1845
Place of publication: [Roxbury, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Other titles: Broadway journal.
Description: Author, identified by an inscription by Edgar Allen Poe, the then owner of the Broadway Journal, as Miss Fuller, expresses gratitude for the journal's acceptance of her article and comments dismissively on the nature of contemporary writing by men on the subject of women.
Notes: Tltle provided by cataloger.

Holograph.

Signed X.

One folded leaf; one page with text.

Text: To the editors of the Broadway Journal I was much obliged to you for your ready acceptance of my article entitled a peep behind the curtain and was very much gratified that you were not alone in your estimate of it, as it was copied very extensively in the public papers. I hope I shall always be equally fortunate.ÞThe object of the present communication speaks for itself. It is to ridicule a style of writing very common in your sex, when discoursing of ours, but which deserves no better epithet than ineffable silliness. I am aware that Longfellow is a popular poet and deservedly so, but I am sure he will not be offended at such a mere piece of pleasantry, coming as it does from one of the party to whom such soft nonsense is addressed. I also wished to make some slight acknowledgement to the [?] in the Whig review for this very flattering view he takes of the weaker sex.