MANUSCRIPT: BPL (Higg 94). Pencil. Envelope addressed: Mrs. Higginson.

PUBLICATION: L (1931) 299-300.

This is probably ED's first letter to Mary Channing Higginson. It would seem that Higginson had recently written that his wife was about to send some token, for the opening of letter no. 459 implies as much. It may have been a representation of the madonna and child.