4037. RB to Edward Law
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 129.
Bagni di Lucca,
Sepr 1. ’57.
Dear Sir, [1]
Have the kindness to inform Messrs Francis that I have received their obliging letter & its enclosed cheque for £25 [2] —(on yourself)– And that I will attend to the request of the letter respecting the photograph, as soon as I get back to Florence. [3]
Yours very truly,
Robert Browning
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. Edward Law (1822–85), British agent for C.S. Francis and Co., New York.
3. It was a year before RB secured a suitable photograph of EBB (see RB to C.S. Francis, 19 September 1858, ms at Columbia).
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