SD1887. Charles Eliot Norton to Arthur Hugh Clough

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 265 (in part).

Cannes

28 November 1855

… We have spent a very pleasant four weeks since we left London, three of them in Paris, and the other on the road. Paris was very full and very brilliant. It has changed much within the last five years, and, beautiful as it has been, I confess I found something to regret in the destruction of some old historic localities, and some picturesque bits of dirty tumble-down streets. … I saw the Brownings while we were in Paris. They were living in the St.-Germain quarter. She was quite ill with a cough, and Browning said they might at any time be off for the South, though they hoped to be able to spend the winter in the city. Pray write me about his new poems, which had not reached Paris. I want much to see them. …

Text: Sara Norton and M.A. DeWolfe Howe, Letters of Charles Eliot Norton (Boston, 1913), I, 141–143.

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