5878. John Forster to RB.

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 181.

[London]

[?18] [March 1867] [1]

<***> [2] I said of a friend [3] of yours last> night what I ought not to have said. It was simply

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be other than, as ever, Affectly yours

John Forster

Robert Browning Esqe

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Library of Congress.

1. Dating suggested by reference to SD2885.

2. The top three-quarters of this two-page letter has been excised.

3. Lady William Russell (see SD2885).

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