5707. RB to Frederic Chapman

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 52–53.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace W.

Feb. 16. ’66.

Dear Frederick,

You proposed some time ago to reprint “Last Poems” & “Poems before Congress”: don’t you think this would be an opportunity for adding another volume to the “Works” thus furnished

Pages

Poems before Congress . . . 72

Last Poems . . . 142

Greek Christian Poets . . . 211

425 pages

= equal to the regular 300 of the others. It might be also sold separately, to complete old editions. What do you say? One advertisement would include both reprints. [1]

Yours very sincerely

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. EBB’s Poetical Works (7th ed., 5 vols., 1866) was published by Chapman and Hall on 9 June. Volume 4 consists of Poems Before Congress, Last Poems, The Greek Christian Poets, and The Book of the Poets, in that order.

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