SD1532. John Brown to Andrew Coventry Dick
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 277 (in part).
23 Rutland Street
[?22] [December 1851]
My dear Coventry,—
I wish you had been here for the last fortnight to have seen, heard, and known Thackeray,—a fellow after your own heart,—a strong-headed, sound-hearted, judicious fellow, who knew the things that differ, and prefers Pope to Longfellow or Mrs. Barrett Browning …
Yours ever affectionately,
J. B.
Text: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Gordon N. Ray (Cambridge, Mass., 1945–46), 2, 821–822.
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