4707. RB to Ernst Georg Friedrich Gryzanowski

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 73.

Siena,

July 12. ’60.

Dear Dr Grisanowsky,

Dare I trespass on your kindness again so far as to beg you to help me in a new difficulty about the “Monitore”– My servant subscribed for the next three months, but allowed the people to continue the address to Mr Russell [1] —thinking it would be useful in case we return to Rome: we sent for the Journal daily, and got it: now, having paid for it, postage and all, to Siena—we don’t get it, due as it is since Saturday last. Could you explain this to their thick heads, and beg them to send me the missing numbers and those that ought to be forthcoming, according to the tenor of the receipt I enclose—and which you must have the goodness to keep.

I write in all haste, with a man waiting to carry the letter—you know however the real gratitude with which we remember your various pieces of kindness to us all. My wife sends her true regard with that of

Yours most sincerely

Robert Browning.

If they are capable of such an effort as cancelling Mr Russell’s name & substituting mine—so much the better.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of North Carolina.

1. Odo Russell (1829–84), unofficial British envoy to the Vatican, who was allowed to receive Florence newspapers that might have been stopped by papal authorities if addressed to the Brownings.

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