SD1153.1. John Forster to William Johnson Fox

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 5.

58 L. I. Fields

Friday Morning [April 1841]

My dear Fox

Are we never to meet again? I hope the Fates are not so hard.

“This comes hopeing” .. you are all well .. as I am not at this present writing.

Not a line for the Examiner Even thought of! Yet have I been clinging all the week to the Expectation of seeing you tonight. I give it up most reluctantly, and hope that you’ll receive me next week .. some early day[.]

Meanwhile, tell me how you all are, with my best regards to all.

Poor Power. I cannot tell you how it troubles me to think of the Atlantic going over him. What business had he there—with the Haymarket, and brilliant lights, and laughing faces, here. No man that I have ever known was so unfit for the serious business of dying. Not that I have quite surrendered every fragment of hope, worn as they all are to shreds.

That Pippa Passes affected me for many reasons and in several ways. If my mind were in tone I’d write something on it today—sometime or other I certainly will.

Ever & always my dear Fox

Your sincerely attached

John Forster.

Address, on integral page: W. J. Fox Esqr / 13 Queen Sq. / Westminster.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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