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As the foregoing letter indicates, Elizabeth Barrett took a lively interest in the United States, an interest warmly reciprocated by many Americans.[14] And the second letter gives further evidence of her concern with American literary affairs. Cornelius Mathews, of whom she speaks, was along with Poe one of her most enthusiastic admirers and worked diligently on her behalf.[15] Her sympathy and gratitude does not, however, exclude an astringent sense of the realities, and her remarks are properly balanced.
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