4872. Walter Savage Landor to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 70–71.

[Florence]

[Postmark: 15 April 1861]

Dear Browning

Your letters are always kind, but the one I recieve this morning, is, I confess to you, very very unsatisfactory. In my last I most earnestly begged of you to send it to my brother. I must know what I have to live on. It now appears to me that my only plan is to take a bedroom at a secondrate inn. As for a carriage, once a week, I give up the idea. Surely my brother Henry will lend me thirty pounds a quarter. Ungrateful and dishonest as my son Arnold is, he will not disown this trifling debt. I now feel certain that I never shall have one whole hours sleep until I am blest with the longest and last. I wou[ld] not willingly anticipate this. But I can not live much longer in a state of uncertainty.

Ever sincerely

yours W. S Landor

My son Charles is with me and promises to look out for a bedroom[.]

Address: Robert Browning Esq / 126 Via Felice / Roma.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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