SD1832. Diary Entry of Henry Crabb Robinson

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 377 (in part).

[London]

July 14th 1855

I breakfasted with Kenyon and had a most agreeable two hours with his party. Kenyon was himself apparently in low spirits or not in high health. The Brownings were the attraction. Mrs. Browning when Miss Barrett was an object of compassion. Now, no one would think she had ever been ill. She talks freely and well and does not now affect the invalid. But the conversation was easy and on popular subjects. Browning was talking tête-à-tête with Edward Kenyon, and Miss Bayley and Miss Courtenay were the others. I left at half-past twelve. …

Text: Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and Their Writers, ed. Edith J. Morley (London, 1938), II, 752.

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