1367.3. John Kenyon to EBB

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 7.

[London]

[ca. September 1843]

Dear E.B.B.

Shall you be alone for half an hour about two o Clock today, when I will bring the other proof– I shall not give you much bother about it—but there is a passage or two I want you to explain–

—What you want to say about the plummet—is “because it did not reach the utter depth—but this will be all too long—and the Stanza must not be otherwise altered—it is to[o] good–

—Perhaps—“Because it touched not”—will do– That is I believe the phrase—applied to soundings–

—Pray look again at the passage about Milton– Your Concetto—(and I like sublime Concetti) is not as clear as Grays—

He saw & blasted with excess of light—

Everybody will look at the Milton stanza—I feel that Lune & Seraphim are only less than God & must not be allowed to fall off like Lesley–

—Then Lune & Seraphim are glories—transparent—and do not harmonize with the thought of obscuration—How I teize You!

—And re-write the Anacreas & make him “something like”–

I send the Raphael Prints for Miss Bayley–

Always dear Coz—Affy yours

John Kenyon

Send a verbal Answer—

Address: Miss Barrett.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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