SD1987. Thomas Woolner to Emily Tennyson

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 255–256 (in part).

27, Rutland Street,

Hampstead Road,

November 6, 1856.

My dear Mrs. Tennyson,

I hear that Millais has done a most wonderful design from the Lord of Burleigh which is being …

I suppose you know that Browning is gone to Florence again: which I am sorry for, as he is a first rate man and most delightful companion: I know a great many men of one kind and another but only a few that I really and thoroughly like and he is one of my favourites—you may quite depend that he means any thing he says—what does not frequently happen to one I am sorry to say. …

Text: Amy Woolner, Thomas Woolner, R.A., Sculptor and Poet: His Life in Letters (London, 1917), pp. 121–122.

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