5342. RB to Thomas Woolner
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 23.
19. Warwick Crescent,
Upper Westbourne Terr:
Feb. 24. ’64
My dear Woolner—(I won’t return your unkindness and Mister you) [1] —I feel sorry indeed that I am engaged doubly,—that is, to dine and then go elsewhere, [2] —on Friday: I never see enough of Tennyson, nor get to talk with him about subjects we either of us value at three straws, I suppose: but I always enjoy smelling (even) his tobacco smoke: tell him so, with my true love. Something like which, you must please to take too, dear Woolner, for all your kindness (except as excepted against) to Yours ever
Robert Browning.
Palgrave the Traveller [3] I like hugely.
Publication: Amy Woolner, Thomas Woolner, R.A., Sculptor and Poet: His Life in Letters (London, 1917), pp. 244–245.
Manuscript: Bodleian Library.
2. Presumably to meet Moncure Daniel Conway (see letter 5343).
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