Correspondence

5727.  RB to Messrs. Elliott & Fry

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 64.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terr: W

March 13. ’66.

Gentlemen, [1]

I shall have pleasure in sitting for the Photograph you desire, [2] whenever you like to appoint the time—I suppose, in the morning.

Thank you much for the capital specimen you send me.

Yours very truly

Robert Browning

Messrs Elliott & Fry.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Ohio Wesleyan University.

1. The photography firm of Elliott & Fry was founded in 1863 by Joseph John Elliott (1835–1903) and Clarence Edmund Fry (1840–97). Their premises at this time were located at 55 Baker Street.

2. The seven images from this sitting are reproduced facing pp. 80–81.

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