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SD2111.1. Thomas Woolner to William Allingham

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 24.

27 Rutland Street

Hampstead Road. N.W.

Oct. 27. [1857]

My dear Allingham

I could not write off at once as you wished …

I read in a paper that Mrs Browning had turned professedly Spiritual Rapper; except that funny things do occur now and then, it would seem incredible that so wise a woman could give her sanction to such damned rot, particularly having such an intellect for a husband who of course hates the loathesome cant as the foulest stenches of hell. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Illinois.

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