5642. Frederick Wedmore to RB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 7–8.
Daily Bristol Times & Mirror
Bristol.
13th Oct: ’65.
My Dear Sir,
It was very kind indeed of you to write the note and send the photograph which came yesterday. For both I am much obliged—especially for the information about Abbot Vogler. [1]
All I hope to do is to write a biographical sketch of him which some may find readable: nothing more ambitious than that: for more than that I am unable to do.
I expect to go to Town, with a friend of mine living here, on Saturday the 28th Oct; and it would give me very great pleasure to call upon you in the course of the afternoon. [2] I have a business call or two to make: but it would be strange if I could not find time to call on you, who have been so kind and courteous to me.
Believe me,
Yours most truly
T. Fred: Wedmore. [3]
Address: Robert Browning, Esq. / 19 Warwick Crescent, / Upper Westbourne Terrace, / London. / W.
Publication: BBIS-8, p. 33.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. Georg Joseph Vogler (1749–1814), known as Abbé Vogler (he was an ordained Roman Catholic priest), German musical theorist, teacher, organ designer, keyboardist, and composer, who greatly influenced the teaching of music in the nineteenth century. He is the subject of RB’s poem “Abt Vogler” (Dramatis Personae, 1864).
2. RB was not at home when Wedmore called (see letter 5660).
3. Thomas Frederick Wedmore (1844–1921), art critic and novelist, reviewed Dramatis Personæ (2nd ed., 1864) in The New Monthly Magazine of February 1865 (pp. 186–194).
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