Correspondence

4507.  EBB & RB to John Forster

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 6.

[16 October 1859] [1]

<***> He writes Latin verses; few English, but a few; and just before we left Siena an imaginary conversation suggested by something one of us had said about the possible reappearance of the body after death. He looks better than ever by the amplitude of a capital beard, most becoming we all judge it.

[Continued by EBB]

If you could only see how well he looks in his curly white beard! <***>

Text: John Forster, Walter Savage Landor, a Biography (London, 1869), II, 565–566.

1. Dated by Forster’s mention of the date of this letter (“the 16th”) in letter 4513.

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