Supporting Documents

SD1875.  John Forster to Robert Bulwer Lytton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 385 (in part).

58 Lincoln Inn Fields

Guy Fawke’s Day 1855

… Tell our dear Browning that I have his letter, & will answer it tomorrow or Wednesday. I do not like the account he gives me of the rooms they are in. Pray do your best to drive him out of them. They must be unhealthy—and to think of Mrs Browning living there in them for a day makes me quite feverish & impatient. What are fifty weeks of rent to that?– But of course Browning knows this better than I do! Only, why does he not at once act upon it? …

I hope you will see much of the Brownings. My kindest love to them all. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Lord Cobbold.

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