3783. RB to Edward Chapman
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 218–219.
3 Rue du Colisée.
May 12. [1856] [1]
My dear Chapman,
Here is the 1st Vol complete [2] —the other two, of much the same size, as we have calculated, shall follow directly. We take your opinion on all the points—let there be, therefore, three volumes, at the price you prefer, [3] and no new poems whatever. [4]
I write in great haste, to secure the good offices of a friend starting for London. [5]
Yours very truly
Robt Browning.
Address, on integral page: E. Chapman Esq.
Publication: NL, pp. 93–94.
Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.
1. Year provided by reference to the return address.
2. EBB’s corrections for Poems (1856).
4. But see letter 3768, note 8.
5. Frederick Locker; see the following letter.
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