1190. EBB to John Kenyon
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 7, 25.
[London]
Tuesday morning– [28 March 1843] [1]
You are too kind to me my dear cousin, as it is your custom to be–
I send ‘Pan’ back to you, much the better for your suggestions in spite of my obstinacies; and if any of the alterations still appear to you insufficient I will try to do them over again– In the meantime you will observe a new stanza—for upon consideration, I did not see why poor Bacchus shd be left out, being as good a god as another. [2]
I keep your having sent me the eau de Cologne a profound secret from Flush, seeing that if he knew it he would do the barking twice over whenever you came, because eau de Cologne & snuff are the two great miseries of life to him .. next to being washed– Papa persecutes him with the sight of his snuffbox,—& Flush makes a point of sneezing whenever he sees the outside of it–
Ever gratefully & affectionately yours
EBB–
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. Date based on the gift of eau de Cologne for which EBB thanked Kenyon in letter 1187.
2. Stanza XIV (lines 92–98), commencing “Bacchus, Bacchus! on the panther / He swoons, bound with his own vines”.
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