5437. Walter Savage Landor to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 104.

[Florence]

[Postmark: 5 August 1864]

My dear Browning

I am nearly blind and totally deaf. My son Charles undresses me, and I do not give any trouble. I dine on soup.

What can you think of the inclosed? I am unable to step from stair to another, nor have I for several months.

Ever yours

W S Landor

Address: Robert Browning Esq / London / [continued in Wilson’s hand:] 19 Warwick crescent / Harrow road / London.

Publication: BBIS-5, p. 60 (as 22 August 1864).

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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