Correspondence

5408.  Walter Savage Landor to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 76–77.

[Florence]

[26 June 1864.] [1]

Dear Browning,

It is now several weeks since I totally lost my voice and hearing. My last effort of writing is being made now, to thank you for your innumerable proofs of kindness, and to say that I have ever been most justly and affectionately

Your obliged

Walter Landor

Need I tell you how grateful I am to Mr Twisleton?

Address, on integral page: Robert Browning Esqr.

Docket, in RB’s hand: June 26. ’64.

Publication: R.H. Super, Walter Savage Landor: A Biography (New York, 1954), pp. 506–507 (in part).

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Date provided by RB’s docket. It is unclear, however, whether the date is of composition or receipt.

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