5593. Robert Williams Buchanan to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 254–255.

Belle Hill

Bexhill

near Hastings.

May 13th 1865

My dear Mr Browning–

I did care to hear your opinion– [1] More, much more, than you may have imagined. If it were courteous to explain what I think of you, you would know what value I set on every line from your hand.

—And what you say, coming from such a quarter, is like new blood to me—blood, heaven knows, very much needed by my very irritable & despondent nature.

Ever yours truly

Robert Buchanan.

Robert Browning Esq.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Library of Congress.

1. On Buchanan’s Idyls and Legends of Inverburn (1865).

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