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SD1750.  Frederic Leighton to Augusta Leighton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 369 (in part).

Rome

25 May 1854

Very dearest Mamma,

Your letter (which I received the day before yestereday, and should have answered the next day but for an engagement I had made to go into the country) caused me great pain …

Cornelius is very kind and amiable to me, has been to see me twice, and speaks well of me behind my back; he told Mrs. Kemble (Fanny) that there was not another man in England that could paint such a picture as my “Cimabue” threatens to be, and the same was unhesitatingly asserted by Browning, the poet, who is also a connoisseur. …

Text: Emilie I. Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton (London, 1906), I, 147–149.

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