744. RB to André Victor Amédée de Ripert-Monclar

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 257.

Londres,

10 Mars. 1840.

Mon cher Amédée,

Est-a que je n’aurai jamais de vos nouvelles? Voici enfin ce pauvre Sordello [1] dont nous avons tant causé dans le tem[p]s [2] —qu’il me soit bon à quelque chose en me procurant l’occasion de vous rappeler que je suis

toujours à vous de cœur et

d’âme,

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Yale University.

Translation:

My dear Amédée,

Shall I never hear from you? Here at long last is that poor Sordello [1] about which we talked so much in the past—may it serve a good purpose in providing me the opportunity to remind you that I am

still yours with heart and soul,

Robert Browning.

1. This copy of Sordello is now at Yale (see Reconstruction, C571).

2. For a comment on RB’s spelling of French words, see letter 509, note 15.

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