SD1879. William Allingham to Arthur Hughes

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 261–262.

Lane, Ballyshannon,

19 Novr 1855.

My dear Hughes

Many thanks for the two Designs, which, hung up in my room, shall often bring …

I am lying in wait for Browning’s ‘Men & Women’. The Athenæum I see has a semi-sensible & wholly idiotic notice of it, which I resolved not to read, but have redd I believe. …

What an excellent & delicious poem that of Browning’s! The only quality Browning wants, to be perfect, is a little stupidity. He said to me at parting 3 years ago ‘If I write a hundred books I will send them all to you’– I hope he won’t forget. He was in London lately, I heard. …

Publication: Letters to William Allingham, ed. H. Allingham and E. Baumer Williams (London, 1911), pp. 62–64.

Manuscript: University of Illinois.

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