5925. Matthew Arnold to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 219.

The Athenæum

June 24th 1867.

My dear Browning

Many thanks for the enclosed, and it is a real pleasure to be joined with you in a man’s liking and esteem. [1]

Ever most truly yours

Matthew Arnold.–

Publication: Arnold, 3, 153.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Presumably, relating to RB’s forthcoming M.A. degree from Oxford. Arnold graduated B.A. from Balliol, Oxford, in 1844, was elected a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, in 1853, and held the professorship of poetry at Oxford from 1857 to 1867.

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