Correspondence

1613.  RB to Frederick Oldfield Ward

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 8, 318–319.

New Cross, Hatcham, Surrey.

May 22. [1844] [1]

My dear Sir,

I will this minute set about transcribing the best of whatever I can find in my desk likely to suit you—and will send it in the course of the day .. morning, I hope. I love Mr Hood heartily and grieve I can do him no other good turn. [2]

Yours very truly,

R Browning.

F. O. Ward Esq.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dated by Hood’s illness.

2. In Memorials of Thomas Hood (1860), his daughter wrote: “In the month of May [1844] my father was again taken ill … In the midst however of this sickness and distress, my father’s friends rallied round him. Mr. F.O. Ward installed himself as unpaid sub-editor, and corrected proofs, and arranged matter for the press” (II, 199–200).

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