Correspondence

5666.  Adelaide Sartoris to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 26.

Warnford Court,

Bishops Waltham.

Tuesday [Postmark: 5 December 1865]

My dear Browning.

Please read in this month’s Cornhill the “Recollections of the life of Joseph Heywood & some of his thoughts about music”, [1] for my sake & for Braham’s [2] of whom I heard you speak the other night just as I feel– I was so glad to see you when I was in town. Will you & the boy never come down here?

Yrs ever affectionately

Adelaide Sartoris

Address: Robert Browning Esqre / 19. Warwick Crescent / Westbourne Road / London.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Yale University.

1. Adelaide Sartoris’s “Recollections of the Life of Joseph Heywood and Some Thoughts about Music” appeared in The Cornhill Magazine of December 1865 (pp. 689–712).

2. John Braham (1774–1856), English tenor, who, “in the theatre, concert-room, or church … had scarcely a rival” (A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. George Grove, 1900, I, 269).

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