SD1958. Thomas Woolner to Emily Tennyson

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

27, Rutland Street,

Hampstead Road,

August 16 [1856].

My dear Mrs. Tennyson,

… I have been busy at work upon a med: of Robert Browning and have made it so like folks make a great fuss who have seen, his wife seems not to know how to express enough praise. … I am very glad Browning is pleased for I have a great admiration for his books except one, and his character I think noble and chivalric to the highest degree. …

Mrs. Browning has just begun sending to Press a poem 11,000 lines long! …

Text: Amy Woolner, Thomas Woolner, R.A., Sculptor and Poet: His Life in Letters (London, 1917), pp. 115–116.

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