Correspondence

4542.  RB to John Forster

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 74.

[Rome]

[9 December 1859] [1]

<***> He is in a small comfortable apartment, newly papered and furnished; a sitting-room, dining room, bed-room, and book-room communicating with each other, on the first floor. Below are rooms for Mrs. Wilson and a maid-servant. There is a small garden attached. He professes himself quite satisfied with all our attempts to make him comfortable, and seems to like Mrs. Wilson much: but there is some inexplicable fault in his temper, whether natural or acquired, which seems to render him very difficult to manage. He forgets, misconceives, and makes no endeavour to be just, or indeed rational; and this in matters so infinitely petty that there is no providing against them. <***>

Text: John Forster, Walter Savage Landor, a Biography (London, 1869), II, 568–569.

1. Date supplied by Forster.

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