5662. RB to William Ralston Shedden-Ralston

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 23.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

Nov. 23. ’65.

Dear Sir,

I confess I do not see what “introduction” your procedure wants beyond the great kindness implied by it. Thank you very heartily: I never heard of the author, book, or passage before: to people busied with researches into the sources of Shakespeare’s knowledge it must be a capital indication,—to me, it is interesting in itself, more interesting from the pleasant way in which it has come before me.

Pray believe me yours truly & obligedly

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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