Correspondence

5790.  RB to Julia Margaret Cameron

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 112.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

July 24, ’66.

Dear Mrs Cameron, [1]

What do you mean by all this generosity,—this present of beautiful photographs? [2] I feel very grateful—but very unworthy too: would I could lend you a face for “Nireus, most beauteous of all Greeks that went to Troy.” [3] I am just leaving London,—to return in October: All prosperity to you meanwhile and ever!

Most truly yours

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle, 1815–79); see letter 5445, note 10.

2. Perhaps these included copies of the photographs of RB and Pen that she had taken in May of the previous year (see letter 5586, note 1). The photographs are reproduced in vol. 31: RB’s as the frontispiece and facing p. 240; Pen’s, facing p. 241.

3. Cf. Homer, The Iliad, 2, 673–674.

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