4882. Henry Eyres Landor to RB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 92.
Tachbrooke– Leamington.
23d April 1861.
Dear Sir
Altho almost blind & scarcely able to write I am anxious to address a few words to you, first for the purpose of expressing my sense of the great obligations you have conferred not only on my Brother Walter but also on my Brother Robert and myself, by relieving us of a great anxiety; and to assure you of our full satisfaction with all that you have benevolently done and our entire reliance on your invariable kindness and judgment.
Secondly that I may distinctly state to you that altho (for my own part) I am willing to continue to make to you the same remittances as heretofore so long as you are kindly willing to accept the onerous charge, and my Brother Walter submits to your guardianship, it is so long only—& not one day longer—the money is entrusted to you alone—with unexampled kindness you have accepted and hitherto discharged the trust—the day my Brother withdraws himself from your care, that trust ceases; I then can neither expect or wish that you should subject yourself to further trouble—I know no other person in Italy in whom I could place any confidence; & I am too old & too infirm to make any exertion on my Brother’s behalf: if he removes himself from comforts with which you have surrounded him he must rely entirely on his Wife & Family.
As to lending him 30£ a quarter [1] most assuredly I will not lend any thing to him or his Family under any circumstances, nor can I have any correspondence with him or them.
My Brother Robert is at present confined to his room by illness, & I am unwilling to mention this Subject to him, but I have reason to suppose his opinion will concur with mine. With the highest respect and gratitude I am
Dear Sir, your obliged
& grateful
Henry Eyres Landor.
To Robert Browning Esqre
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Yale University.
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