Correspondence

2651.  RB to Henry Fothergill Chorley

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 14, 110–111.

[Pisa]

[ca. February 1847] [1]

<***> Tell me of your success in your own negotiations, which I confidently expect, and beforehand rejoice in. … I do feel that you are safe in the hands of those truthful-looking Cushmans; and being very glad you have got them, shall be yet gladder when the world gets you, and helps to realise the good wishes of such as myself, with only wishes at their disposal, for a most conscientious artist, honest critic, and loyal friend. <***>

Text: Henry Fothergill Chorley: Autobiography, Memoir, and Letters, comp. Henry G. Hewlett, 1873, II, 129–130.

1. Approximate dating based on RB’s references to Charlotte and Susan Cushman, as well as EBB’s comment in letter 2653 “that Miss Cushman means to be imperious about Mr. Chorley’s tragedy .. the ‘Duchess Eleanor.’” See also letter 2642, note 8.

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