2618. Richard Hengist Horne to EBB & RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 14, 7.

[London]

22 September 1846 [1]

Offered for sale by Raphael King, London, Catalogue 24, 1935, item 15. 3 pp., 8vo. Horne writes to RB: “You have got the flower of all time—whose leaves are touched already with a bright futurity. And she has got the one most worthy of her.”

1. The letter was not concluded until 4 October 1846. The original is in the private collection of Peter N. Heydon.

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