SD1590. Jane Welsh Carlyle to John A. Carlyle

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 369 (in part).

5 Cheyne Row

Tuesday [27 July 1852]

My dear John

You will like to hear “what I am thinking of Life” in the present confusion. … Figure my satisfaction then, when on my return from taking Mazzini to call for the Brownings the new servant came to me with a set face …

Oh such a fuss the Brownings made over Mazzini this day! My private opinion of Browning is, in spite of Mr C’s favour for him, that he is nothing or very little but “a fluff of feathers”! She is true and good, and the most womanly creature! …

Publication: Carlyle, 27, 189–190.

Manuscript: Chelsea Library.

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