5965. RB to Robert Scott
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 256.
19. Warwick Crescent,
Upper Westbourne Terrace, London. W.
Oct: 21. ’67.
Dear Dr Scott,
I am altogether unable to say how I feel as to the fact you communicate to me. [1] I must know more intimately than you can how little worthy I am of such an honour,—you hardly can set the value of that honour, you who give, as I who take it. Indeed, there are both “duties and emoluments” attached to this position,—duties of deep and lasting gratitude, and emoluments through which I shall be wealthy my life long. I have at least loved learning and the learned, and there needed no recognition of my love on their part to warrant my professing myself, as I do,
Dear Dr Scott,
Yours ever most faithfully,
Robert Browning.
Publication: Orr, p. 266.
Manuscript: Balliol College.
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