3144. RB to Edward Chapman

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 262–263.

Lyons,

Oct. 25, ’52.

Dear Mr Chapman,

I left London “in fretta e furia” [1] as we say, and have to make up for oversights by writing from any resting place on the road. May I ask you to have the kindness to make up two parcels and get them sent or delivered any way you please, at your convenience. The first, containing a copy of my wife’s poems & mine, [2] as well as Casa Guidi & Christmas Eve,—to Mrs Selwyn, care of Miss Barrett, 50 Wimpole St – The second, containing only the 2 vols of my wife’s poems, to Miss Haworth, care of Miss Chorley 76 Chester Square. [3] It will greatly oblige me.

We start to-night for Chambéry and Turin—the weather seeming not too advanced for the Mont Cénis.

Yours very faithfully,

Robt Browning.

Address, on integral page: Messrs Chapman & Hall, / Piccadilly.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. “In haste and frenzy.”

2. RB’s Poems (1849) and EBB’s Poems (1850).

3. We have been unable to trace the present whereabouts of these presentation copies.

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