1556.5. John Kenyon to EBB

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 8.

[London]

[March 1844]

I write dear E.B.B. in great hurry– A thousand thanks for your kindest of notes– Do not wonder at my perseverence thro’ your seeming silence– Is it nothing think you to be selected—almost the only selected—to come and see you and hear you? Trust me I am like the little old man of the sea and will not be shaken off– Consider I beseech you—all—for almost all the remarks I may make first is an ? sense—really interrogative

—Page 10—By the lie in which I keep myself—“Is this—or is it not rather an uncalled for depreciation of himself?[”]

Page 14—line 3—“Along the dread.” Is not dread put as a substantive? and when adjectives are so put does it not often prevent ambiguity (& pre-admonish the reader) to put a capital letter—Dread.–

Page 16. Last line but three “Fluttered loosely and grand[”] I cannot make rythm [sic] of this line– You would not strongly accent the ēd—in fluttered—nor the lý—in loosely.

—I hear of rival poetry– There is a Mr Ebenezer Jones—who they say writes very well—and a Mr Patmore—whom Forster vaunts– I was last night at a small party where were Browning—Carlyle—Sidney Smith—Babbage—Milnes—Dickens—and half a dozen more notabilities– I had some talk with Carlyle who was all fun– His charming wife was there–

I have got those rhymes in Tate—the Vicar of Edmonton—which I will show you when next I come–

Address, on integral page: Miss Barrett / 50 Wimpole Str

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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