5171. RB to Frederic Chapman
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 198.
[London]
[ca. February 1863] [1]
Dear Chapman,
I send back the Green, as that which on the whole I prefer—but all are very suitable colours—let them all be bound so, therefore.
Mr Taylor does not send the remaining sheets,—I am anxious to get done: also, for a reason I will tell you when we next meet, I should like my own thing to come out now: [2] because I may want to print some poems of my own in the course of the summer,—& this ought to precede them.
Ever yours faithfully,
RB.
Don’t forget what I proposed to you about M. Milsand’s book: [3] I have the highest (literally highest) opinion of his essays and should be glad to see them in English.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Berg Collection.
1. Approximate dating suggested by RB’s choice of green for binding. EBB’s The Greek Christian Poets and The English Poets, published on 9 March 1863, was bound in green cloth.
2. Poetical Works (3 vols., 1863). “Poems of my own” refers to Dramatis Personæ (1864).
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