SD2428. Vernon Lushington to Harry Govier Seeley

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 363–364 (in part).

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[late 1860]

<***> In Italy I had the great satisfaction of seeing a man who had a wonderful knack, habit, temper, call it what you like, & imagine how it was gained if you can,—of dealing blithely & kindly with the whole world; every one about him seemed to rejoice in his presence. He was a genius too, & an unregarded genius, a poet almost without readers,—his name Robert Browning. I don’t intend to forget him. …

I am quite aware what the Cambridge undergraduate world is, proud almost to a man, & considering its own society sufficient for all purposes without recruiting the Assistant to the Woodwardian Museum. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Illinois.

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