5929. John Matthias Wilson to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 221.

Corpus Christi College Oxford

[Postmark: 29 June 1867]

My dear Sir

I was not able to show your Letter, (wh: reached me at the crisis of the Examinations) to those persons whom I thought it concerned. I have since done so & all concur with me in expressing the great satisfaction & pride they put in your becoming a member of the University of Oxford. We hope & trust that before another year is past, you may have the right of voting in Convocation.

Believe me

Dear Sir very

truly yours

J M Wilson [1]

Address: Robert Browning Esq / 19 Warwick Crescent / Harrow Road.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Worcester College.

1. John Matthias Wilson (1813–81), philosopher, was professor of Moral Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1846 and president of the college from 1872 until his death.

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