SD1316. John Kenyon to Hiram Powers
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 14, 371 (in part).
40 York Terrace
London
May 4 [1847]
Dear Mr. Powers–
A few weeks ago I forwarded a letter of introduction to you for my friend Robt. Browning, who married my dear friend & relative Eliz. B. Barrett, whose name & genius are known on yr side the water in the New World—as in ours. Browning has every quality of mind & moral excellence to make you like him & trust him—and with the sympathy which exists between men like you I know, desires to know you. Give him, first for my sake—then for his own & your own any local information and any information as to Art, which may be useful or agreeable to him. I had told you in the last poste how we were all admiring your fishing boy. Two mornings ago I went by my old friend Mackay’s to see your Proserpine—I was much struck—as are all who see it. I wish however you had not made the ivy so rich which draws the eye a little away from your own [illegible word] work, and high flesh finish.
Mackay & Rogers—the poet & Eastlake our painter dine here the day after tomorrow. Wish you could be here to meet them & with them your countrymen Mr. Winthrop of Boston—& young Perkins whom you know & young Appleton.
I think with pleasure of the hours I passed with you & Greenhough at Florence & hope to renew them—somewhere– I have not lately heard from Everett.
Yrs always truly
John Kenyon
Ere I had sealed this note our friend Bezzi comes from Rome and begs his very kind regards to you.
This is Bezzi’s first Morning in London and we have just spent half an hour looking up at the fisher boy with delight. We feel the antique in it. I make |aro[u]nd| from marking the envelope for this note. You will see we think of you & your works–
Address: Hiram Powers Esqre / Florence.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Smithsonian Institution.
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