SD1278. Anne Benson Procter to Unidentified Correspondent

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 14, 363 (in part).

5 Calverley Terrace

Tonbridge Wells

Sep 28th 1846

My dear Sir

I thank you many times for your Letter, and above all for promising to come and see us.– …

You have mistaken me about Miss Rigby I merely considered her a proper mate for you, because she wrote in the Quarterly Review, as I recommended Mr Milnes to choose either Miss Camilla Toulmin, or Miss Theodosia Garrow.– I never heard your name and hers mentioned together[.] The impertinence if any, is my own—I am astonished at what you tell me about Miss Barrett– Six weeks since Mrs Jameson was to introduce them to each other!– Women love a “little artifice & ingenuity” but most men are above it– …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Yale University.

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