SD2425. Walter Savage Landor to Edith Story

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

[Florence]

[ca. 15 December 1860]

How heartily glad I am to receive your charming letter …

A letter from the ever kind Browning is brought to me with yours. He writes wisely and affectionately as usual. Pen and his pony have also their interest with me. I wish I could see you riding together.

Garibaldi has no longer any business at Rome. His lieutenant the King of Italy must do any business there. Moreover, do I fear that he will be murdered in his island by the allies of the Bourbon who now protects and provisions Gaeta. This is what I have just been writing to Browning. …

Text: The Cornhill Magazine, n.s., 38 (April 1915), 496–497.

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