739. RB to Alfred Domett [1]
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 253–254.
[London]
[7 March 1840] [2]
My Dear Domett,
Pray accept the book, [3] and do not reject me. However, I hope you will like it a little, and beat it famously yourself [4] ere the season is out.
Ever yours most truly,
R Browning.
Saty Night.
St Perpetua’s Day!! (see Almanack)
Publication: RB-AD, pp. 27–28.
Manuscript: British Library.
1. For details of RB’s friendship with Domett, see pp. 315-317. See also “Robert Browning and Alfred Domett,” by W. Hall Griffin, in The Contemporary Review, January 1905 (pp. 95-115).
2. Dated by reference to St. Perpetua’s Day.
3. Sordello.
4. A pencil note by Alfred Domett appears at the foot of the page of the album in which he preserved this letter: “A little bit of playful affection this, taken as such and perfectly understood on both sides.—A.D.”
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