2337. EBB to John Kenyon

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 12, 289.

[London]

Saturday– [ca. May 1846] [1]

I return the books, Dearest Mr Kenyon, & thank you much for them. The first volume of Forest Hill is the best, I think—the two last lie in very stiff clay for the wheels– But of course there is talent, & every sign of cultivation & acquirement .. also good intentions & right feelings, .. though set rather straightly in the conventional moulds– Here is Drayton too—& here, my thanks, for all!

Affectionately yours

EBB–

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

1. Dated by handwriting and by EBB’s reference to Forest Hill: a Tale of Social Life in 1830–1831, (3 vols., 1846) by Mary Elizabeth Wormeley (afterwards Latimer, 1822–1904), which was published at the end of April, according to the “List of New Books” in The Athenæum for 25 April 1846.

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