740. RB to Walter Savage Landor [1]
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 254.
Hanover Cottage, Southampton St
Camberwell, London.
March 7. 1840.
My dear Sir,
May I beg you will accept the accompanying little book published to-day? [2] I had rather you praised it than anybody else now in the world.
Faithfully yours,
Robt Browning.
W. S. Landor Esq
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: R.H. Taylor Collection.
1. For details of RB’s friendship with Landor, see pp. 323-325.
2. The volume, Sordello, is also in the R.H. Taylor Collection. It is inscribed: “Walter S. Landor, / from R.B–” (see Reconstruction, C566).
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