1532. Bryan Waller Procter to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 8, 202.

4 Grays Inn Square

15 Feby 1844

My dear Browning

What has become of you? Let me hear of you or see you. I send you a specimen of my want of wit– [1] But I mean to please (or try to please) you with some of my dramatic Cohorts.

Which of the 9 young women (Greeks) is it that is living with you at New X? [2] How is the coming Drama? [3]

Always your sincere

B W Procter

Return me the proof if you please when you have glanced at it.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Chicago.

1. Cf. The Merchant of Venice, I, 1, 6.

2. i.e., which of the Muses is currently inspiring RB?

3. Colombe’s Birthday, sent to the printer on 9 March and published in April as no. VI in the Bells and Pomegranates series.

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