3184. RB to Walter Richard Cassels

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 19, 36–37.

Florence,

April 5. ’53.

My dear Sir,

I have just despatched, by the 2½ p.m. train a small packet [1] to your address– You will find, in the same, a note expressing the true thanks I feel for your goodness: but I thought it safest to apprise you by post also that there is such a packet on its way to you. Would it be asking too much—to ask a word to certify the safe arrival? A word thrown into the post–

Ever yours very faithfully,

Robt Browning.

Address: (W. R. Cassels Esq.) / Messrs Benni & Cassels, / Livorno.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. It included letters 3182, 3183, and EBB’s corrections and revisions for volume one of Poems (1853), as well as another note from RB to Cassels.

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