SD1623. John Kenyon to Anna Brownell Jameson
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 376 (in part).
39, Devonshire Place,
Wedy 8 [December] 1852
Dear Mrs. Jameson,—
I enclosed your note to Mrs. Browning to her sister Arabel, to be forwarded by the first convenient opportunity.
The Brownings left London about the middle of October, I shd say, for Paris, where they stayed a fortnight to settle old Mr. Browning and his daughter, who are residing together at Paris. During their stay there they witnessed the triumphant entry of that scampish Adventurer, surrounded by his military, into Paris—after his return from that tour.
That he may be a very useful Governor for France, in their present unhappy state, I do not deny—But how dear Ba can manufacture an Enthusiasm for him—on the basis of free Election—an Election by the interested and the ignorant I do not so well understand, yet in her last note to me she groans under the tyranny at Florence. I never talk politics with her, considering her fine intellect demented, as you say in Scotland, on that point. They are in Casa Guidi—happy to be there—after a rude journey over Mont Cenis which increased her cough sadly, but they rested on their way—a week at warm Genoa—which nearly restored her. But when she wrote, her attentive husband was dosing her with Cod’s liver oil—which does not imply perfect restoration. …
Text: Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships, ed. Mrs. Steuart Erskine (London, 1915), pp. 275–277 (as from Harriet Grote).
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