1191.5. John Kenyon to EBB
Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 7.
H.P.
Tuesday Midnight [28 March 1843]
My dear Friend
Thank you again and again for your noble verses– I have seldom been more touched by a poem– Thank you for all the pains you have taken about it—last of all for having taken the additional trouble of transcribing it for me– Now I want to communicate the pleasure I have in it to all whose taste I value. To Browning—to Tennyson—to Procter– But I will give no copy—nor allow any–
I am going to write to Wordsworth tomorrow morning and shall send him the Sonnets and tell him of the poem and if he asks for it—he shall see it– I do not force gold on any cold acceptors– You are safe in my hands– So don’t be shy, my Sweet Cousin—long as the poem is—that is many as are the lines—it seems to me all projected at one heart– I cannot tell you how it hits my fancy—and I can already repeat the “Soul’s expression” by heart—a good test I think of the cohesion of the parts of a sonnet—a kind of composition hard enough to have by heart without this sort of excellence–
Thank you again and still more for not sulking with me & snubbing me–
Affecly yours
John Kenyon
Address: Miss E. B. Barrett.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
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