5098. RB to Frederic Chapman
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 105–106.
19. Warwick Crescent
Harrow Road,
July 19, ’62.
Dear Chapman,
The way, I suppose, will be to bring the cases [1] here, unpack them in the street, [(]for which there is room) & bring the articles separately into the house—about which there can be no difficulty—each case contains a great variety of articles; if they arrive early in the morning, I will be prepared with proper persons to unpack & stow away. Only I ought to be very exactly apprised. Any day next week will do,—say Tuesday—and at any hour of the morning. All thanks to you for the kind trouble you take.
How about the article? [2] I am in a serious scrape of its little kind, remember.
Ever yours faithfully,
R Browning.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library, Gordon N. Ray Bequest.
1. Containing furniture from Casa Guidi and other effects left with the de Fauveaus the previous year when RB returned to England. Apparently they were addressed to the care of Chapman, to whom the consigner wrote that they were of “an immense size” and asked for “instructions as to how he is to proceed” (letter 5099). Sometime after delivery, RB had a photograph taken of the furniture. It is reproduced facing p. 113.
2. Possibly a reference to an article by Cartwright that would later appear in The National Review, a Chapman and Hall publication (see letter 5071, note 4).
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