5588. Robert Williams Buchanan to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 252–253.

Belle Hill

Bexhill

near Hastings.

May 2nd [1865] [1]

My dear Mr Browning–

I have asked my Publisher to send you a copy of “Inverburn”– [2] I should value your verdict on it, but should chiefly like to hear whether you think the vein one worth working.

Yours always

Robert Buchanan.

Robt Browning Esq.

Address: Robert Browning Esq. / “Athenaeum” Club / London / W.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Alexander Turnbull Library.

1. Year provided by postmark.

2. Buchanan’s Idyls and Legends of Inverburn (1865), published by Alexander Strahan in the first week of May. RB’s copy sold as part of lot 974 in Browning Collections (see Reconstruction, A520).

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