5217. Walter Savage Landor to RB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 239.
[Florence]
May 7 [1863] [1]
Dear Browning,
Two visits I have recieved from your friend Twislestone [2] have overjoyed me. He has tolerated my half-deafness and has nearly cured the other half. How refreshing it is to find a well-bred man anywhere. Mr Twisleton adds good sense to goodhumour and sound scholarship. Of the English now remaining at Florence I know only Marchesa Guardagni, [3] and her mother Lady Lee and the Trollopes. They have called to visit me in my illness: Marchesa Guadagni almost every evening: nevertheless I sadly miss you. In your letter you mention some picture of mine about to be sold. I do not recollect one—if there is, let me entreat of you to give it to Robert for his room at Bal[l]iol in remembrance of an old departing and then departed friend, as I have long been yours affectionately
W. Landor
Address: Angleterre / R. Browning Esq / 19 Warwick Cresct. / Upper Westbrook [sic, for Westbourne] Terrace.
Publication: BBIS-5, p. 54.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. Year provided by postmark.
2. Sic, for Twisleton, which Landor spells correctly below.
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