SD1681. Robert Bulwer Lytton to John Forster

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 19, 374 (in part).

Bagni di Lucca

Sept. 14 1853

My dear Mr Forster,

I was deeply grieved to hear from Browning of your severe and lengthened suffering: and I was on the point of writing to you when your last letter to him arrived.

… and bring you amongst us all here, where I have been passing a very delightful week with the Brownings, whose acquaintance has been my grt happiness since I have been in Florence. … Here too are the Stories, who if they knew I were writing to you, would, I am sure, send many kind messages.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Lord Cobbold.

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