5996. Alfred William Hunt to RB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 280–281.
1 Tor Villas
Campden Hill W.
Dec. 26. [1867] [1]
My dear Sir
May I come and call upon you? My admiration of your work is so great that I cannot help wishing very much to see and speak to you—and the Kind way in which you spoke in your letter to me of a picture of mine “Childe Roland”, [2] for the subject of which I was indebted to your poem gives me courage to make this very bold request. I will presume on your kindness So far as to call some afternoon on the hope of finding you at home and perhaps disengaged for a few minutes.
I am
Yours faithfully
A.W. Hunt
I did not write to thank you for your letter [3] and to say how much pleasure your opinion of the picture gave me. I was then on the point of removing from Durham to London and had some faint hope of seeing you some time.
Address: R. Browning Esq / 19 Warwick Crescent / Upper Westbourne Terrace / W.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. Year provided by postmark.
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