5602. RB to Thomas Woolner

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 260–261.

19, Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.,

May 25, 1865.

My dear Woolner,

Will you tell Mr. Jowett that I am most grateful for his goodness, and accept it with the utmost pleasure!

As for you we are old friends now, and your own goodness is much as usual.

I write at once—but will call on you before the time, to arrange how we meet & go together: [1] how pleasant it will be!—at least to

Yours ever truly

Robert Browning.

Of course I am very thankful to Mrs. Pattison [2] also—as you must kindly assure her—but indeed one’s breath is taken away by you & your friends.

Text: Amy Woolner, Thomas Woolner, R.A., Sculptor and Poet: His Life in Letters (London, 1917), p. 259.

1. To visit Benjamin Jowett at Oxford (10–12 June).

2. Emilia Francis Pattison (née Strong, 1840–1904), art historian, author, and feminist. She married Mark Pattison (1813–84), rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1861.

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