SD1503. Diary Entry of Henry Crabb Robinson

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 272.

[London]

Sept. 7th 1851

I was not at Kenyon’s house till near twelve. With him I found Walter Savage Landor, who was in a somewhat subdued mood all day. In his judgments not at all extravagant—his laugh only as joyous and sincere as ever. … Our party was increased by Browning, whom I found more agreeable as well as more healthy than ever. The talk was critical and anecdotic, and the latter easier to set down than the former. … Browning … is so far from being timid that he and Mrs. Browning are going to Florence, notwithstanding her Casa Guidi. Procter accompanied Browning. …

Text: Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers, ed. Edith J. Morley (London, 1938), II, 710.

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