5008. RB to James Russell Lowell

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 19.

1. Chichester Road,

Upper Westbourne Terrace.

Jan. 14. ’62.

Dear Mr Lowell,

Will you suffer me to introduce to you my friend—Mr Dicey—just about visiting America and desirous of understanding thoroughly whatever he may have to report upon afterwards? [1] His good, true, clever books about Italian affairs had & have a sensible effect in England: he will certainly observe as honestly among you, and probably instruct us no less on his return.

I am hurried in my application,—or I might say a word or two on my own account—

Ever yours faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Lowell is referred to as “one of my friends” in Dicey’s Six Months in the Federal States (1863), II, 220.

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