SD1582. Walter Richard Cassels to David Holt

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 367 (in part).

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17 June [1852]

… You very much mistake if you imagine I don’t highly appreciate the Brownings. I think them both of the very greatest genius and can’t conceive where you have got your idea from. I am sure I have always praised Mrs. B. even above yourself. The reason I associate her with “Lady Geraldine” especially is that through that poem I first became acquainted with her, and I still think it one of the sweetest and most perfect on record. I remember long ago pointing out her sonnets to you as preeminently fine, and I know few to equal them. Browning, I think, a very fine fellow and a true poet. His “Blot on the ’Scutcheon” and “The Confessional” are enough to stamp him.

With regard to making their acquaintance, failing other resources I shall take bold measures. More hereafter … I hope soon to write you a better letter than this uninteresting one, and to have something about the Brownings for you.

Text: The Cornhill Magazine, January 1924, pp. 99–100.

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