SD1633. Zoë King to Thomas Forbes Kelsall

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 379 (in part).

White Ladies, Bristol.

Jan. 22. 1853

… I applied to Captain Beddoes, saying if he sanctioned it …

I do not know whether I mentioned to you the high terms of praise with which both Mr & Mrs Browning spoke of the poems, just as they were published, to a friend of mine & sister of Mrs Beddoes—both being unaware of the slightest connection. …

Text: The Browning Box, ed. H. W. Donner (London, 1935), pp. 61–62.

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