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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