5053. RB to Walter Savage Landor
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 68.
1 Chichester Road, Upper Westbourne Terrace
April 14. ’62
Offered for sale by John Grant, book seller, Edinburgh, Catalogue, October 1938, item 297. 3¼ pp. sm. 8vo. RB writes: “I should be deeply gratified by a word from you to tell me that you are well, or at least the better for what I suppose must be real spring weather with you: here, the bleak winds will certainly have caused the death of every blossom that has ventured to come out on the faith of Mid-April.” He goes on to speak of the interest many friends take in London, mentioning Monckton Milnes and hearing Carlyle “speak of you three days ago at Ld. Ashburton’s in a way that would have satisfied your warmest admirers.” He concludes with a reference to his son: “Robert is much grown, healthy, happy and good to me and others. He studies Latin and Greek with a good tutor, keeps up his music, draws nicely and improves generally.”
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