SD2454. Diary Entry of Edward Lear
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 288 (in part).
[Florence]
30 June 1861
Very c[l]oudy—& swoops of hard rain … At 3:30 at the Levers. R. Lytton (Bulwer) who was to have dined there, could not come, on account of Mrs. Browning’s death! Mr. Walton, & Mr. Scotto there. … At 6 a break up: went with Walton to his house … Back to the L.’s where R.B. Lytton had sent to say he could not come, being with poor Browning.
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