Correspondence

5592.  RB to Unidentified Correspondent

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 254.

19 Warwick Crescent

Upper Westbourne Terrace W.

May 12. ’65.

I beg to say that I was not in London when “Angel Visits” [1] came to Chapman & Hall: the book only reached me yesterday: hence this delay in returning my sincere thanks for it.

I am very grateful to the writer of a particular poem [2] in the collection.

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Bodleian Library.

1. Angel Visits, and Other Poems, published anonymously by Smith, Elder & Co., was advertised as “now ready” in The Athenæum of 18 February 1865 (no. 1947, p. 249).

2. “In Memory of Elizabeth Barrett Browning” (pp. 187–196).

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