SD1940. John Forster to Robert Bulwer Lytton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 244 (in part).

58 Lincoln Inn Fields

7th July 1856

… Browning has come over for a couple of months, but as yet I have only had the most hurried glimpse of him—& his wife, who brings over her poem, I have not seen at all. They are in poor dear Kenyon’s house. He (Kenyon I meant) is at Cowes. And I do not think the end can be far distant. It is very sad. The brothers are there together—they have always wished, each of them, that he should die first—and such invalids are they both, that this might seem even yet a doubtful issue. The survivor, as I fancy, for however long or short a time, will get all the wealth of the other—but in the final distribution of the Fortune, if not earlier, I cannot doubt but that the Brownings must profit greatly in the worldly sense. Heartily do I wish them, and their little Penini, all good that this Earth can give. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Lord Cobbold.

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