SD1688. Robert Bulwer Lytton to Edward Bulwer-Lytton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 19, 375 (in part).

[Florence]

[October 1853]

<***> that is the bent of my mind. I have retained a List of the poems, and will send you by Post the corrected versions …

I have been on a short visit to the Brownings at the Baths of Lucca—and they are most kind hosts almost the only acquaintances I have made at Florence, wh it gives me to [sic] pleasure to think I may retain—it is something, the contact with superior minds—wh. both of them undoubtedly are—both, I think, far richer than their works– Sometimes a word from a person of genius is an open sesame—to one’s own hidden Life—it is true that “great men make the Earth wholesome.” Now—I am back again in Florence. …

Publication: Personal & Literary Letters of Robert First Earl of Lytton, ed. Betty Balfour (London, 1906), I, 44 (in part).

Manuscript: Lord Cobbold.

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