2966. RB to Frederick Oldfield Ward

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 138.

[Paris]

16 October 1851

Offered for sale by Dobell, Catalogue 40 (1924), item 34. 3 pp., 8vo. RB asks about a parcel of books he had sent Ward, and adds: “We got away from London, I should tell you, a fortnight ago, and journied hither by the long Dieppe and Rouen way, but merrily enough, for (I’d have you to know) Carlyle was of our party. After some infructuous lodging hunting, we chose the sunny side of the Avenue here, resolving not to mind its remoteness from the centre of life and good things– The weather is fully Siennese and almost—Florentine; but people write from England that you have a capital time of it also.”

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