5049. RB to John Alfred Langford

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 64–65.

1. Chichester Road,

Upper Westbourne Terrace,

Apr. 5. ’62

Dear Sir, [1]

I can only thank you most truly & warmly for the kind words you have said & the sympathy you show.

Pray accept what I enclose, & believe me

Yours very gratefully

Robert Browning.

J. A. Langford Esq.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Case Western Reserve University.

1. John Alfred Langford (1823-1903), journalist and poet, of Birmingham. RB probably sent him a photograph of EBB. He is listed in the Brownings’ address book of this period (AB-4) at Aston Hall, Birmingham.

___________________