3486. RB to William Page

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 345.

[Florence]

[Postmark: 10 November 1854]

<***> [1] Kind regards to Mr Tilton and thanks for all his trouble. He will have described the frame to you: it is here and very well executed. [2] As soon as I get the picture I shall send it to London for exhibition, taking care that it is seen by competent people meanwhile. Can you hear of no way of transport,—safe, pray!

Address: M. William Page, / aux soins de Pakenham, Hooker et Cie / Rome. Redirected, in unidentified hand: 20. S. Basilio.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. The manuscript consists of an envelope only. The text of the letter is written on the inside of the flap and in the throat.

2. The frame for Page’s portrait of RB.

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