SD1908. Robert Bulwer Lytton to John Forster
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 268 (in part).
Paris
March 3/56
It is reluctantly, my dear Forster, that I have put off from day to day, the execution of my long desire to break silence wh has been growing all too long …
Leighton, the young painter, has just finished a clever picture of Orpheus—clever certainly, but it does not please me. Browning I believe is at work again on his Sordello. His wife on her forthcoming poem—a novel in blank verse. …
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Lord Cobbold.
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