3903. EBB & RB to Charles Stephen Francis

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 108.

[In RB’s hand]

London, 39. Devonshire Place.

Oct. 21. ’56.

Dear Sir,

I send the remainder of the Poem,—Title & Dedication: by next mail, shall be despatched duplicates of the whole: I leave England to-morrow for Italy, and have only to wish you every success with your purchase. The recognition you will find accompanying this note, in my wife’s writing, as you desired.

We both remain

Yours very sincerely

E & Robert Browning.

Chapman will not publish before Nov. 15.—at my particular request.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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