Correspondence

5323.  RB to Moncure Daniel Conway

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 13.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

Feb. 1. ’64.

My dear Mr Conway, [1]

I knew you would be only too generous—so it has happened, accordingly. [2] You know I feel very grateful for all your kindness, and wish I deserved it better.

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Rochester.

1. Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907); see letter 5234, note 4.

2. A reference to Conway’s review of RB’s Poetical Works (3 vols., 1863), which appeared in The Victoria Magazine for February 1864, pp. 298–316. For the full text of this review, see pp. 329–337.

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