Correspondence

6003.  RB to Reuben Browning

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 284–285.

19. Warwick Crescent, W.

Jan. 3. ’68.

Offered for sale by Bonhams, 22 November 2011, lot 20. 2 pp., 8vo. RB writes: “My dear Reuben, / Yours received, with all thanks on the part of Sarianna, who sends her best love & Christmas good wishes with mine. / Of course I have the Jonson [1] you gave me so kindly of old: shall I send it you, & whither? / I don’t remember hearing my Father mention those circumstances about Junius: your conjecture is striking & well worthy of investigation. …”

1. Ben Jonson, Workes, Vol. 1 (1616). This copy sold as lot 792 in Browning Collections (see Reconstruction, A1323, where the inscription, “Robert Browning,” is mistakenly attributed to RB’s father).

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