SD2009. Thomas Woolner to William Allingham

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 260 (in part).

27 Rutland Street,

Hampstead Heath,

December 10, 1856.

My dear Allingham,—On coming home to dinner this evening your letter smote me from the …

The Brownings are at Florence and I have heard nothing of them since they left London. I have read Aurora Leigh and am vastly pleased with it: think it [a] very far superior thing to any other of her works. The history of Marian Earle which it contains is wonderful for vivid rendering and deep sympathy. I rejoice to hear the great Robert praised, for he deserves the best that can be bestowed.

Text: Letters to William Allingham, ed. H. Allingham and E. Baumer Williams (London, 1911), pp. 289–291.

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