Supporting Documents

SD1594.  John Kenyon to Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer

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

39. Devonshire Place

August 8 1852

Dear Mr Van de Weyer

My friend Robert Browning having heard that you have been desirous to possess this (now suppressed) book [1] requests that I will offer it to you in his name and mine.

It is one of two copies which he happens to possess.

I am going out of town (to Scotland) tomorrow–

Pray address your acknowledgment to Robert Browning—at No 58. Welbeck Street.

With my best regards to Madame Van de Weyer–

I am truly yours

John Kenyon

Mr Van de Weyer

&c.

Address: To his Excellency / The Belgian Minister / J Kenyon.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Princeton University.

1. Enclosed with a copy of Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, With an Introductory Essay, by Robert Browning, London 1852. The volume is inscribed by RB “To His Excellency M. Van de Weyer, with Robert Browning’s compliments. Aug. 7, 1852.”

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