Supporting Documents

SD1616.  Walter Richard Cassels to David Holt

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 374 (in part).

Leghorn

23 October 1852

… By the way, tell me in what tone Mrs. Browning writes about Guerrazzi in “Casa Guidi Windows.” The Brownings have not yet come back, and I much fear they will not do so at all. An artist was telling me about them the other day who was passing through here, and who, I believe, has taken portraits of them. He says that Browning is a very shy, silent man, who dislikes being introduced to strangers, and who gets very nervous on being so. One can understand part of that well, but the shyness and silence are bits of character.

Text: The Cornhill Magazine, January 1924, p. 100 (in part).

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