SD1863. Thomas Carlyle to John A. Carlyle

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 383 (in part).

Chelsea,

26 Septr, 1855—

My dear Brother,

The best news I have got for you is that Jean seems to be fairly thro’ her sore business; …

He [Neuberg] was here last night; … Browning had come down too, to whom Neuberg could hardly be bridled into handsome behaviour: Browning staid an hour after him; was really entertaining in his way. He has a singularly lively conception of every object that has come before him: and will give you the like, if you patiently endure, and let him haggle and wriggle thro’ the strange jungle of loud speech (loud soliloquy, you would say, rather than dialogue) which is his way of communicating it. He has decidedly a good talent;—but is unluckily, and now bids fair to continue, in the valley of the shadow of mere George-Sandism, Mazzini-ism, Leigh Huntism: one cannot help it; tho’ it is a pity! …

Publication: Carlyle, 30, 73–75.

Manuscript: National Library of Scotland.

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