SD2016. Robert Bulwer Lytton to Edward Bulwer-Lytton
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 281 (in part).
Hague
15 Dec 1856
My dearest Father,
Your letter has just reached me. …
Browning who does nothing but write Poems, and read the books he likes, is without exception the happiest man I know. …
[Continued 19 December]
Both Forster & the Brownings to whom I sent copies of the “Abbess” are very discouraging abt it & recommend me not to go on with it. They both declare that it is under the influence of Byron. …
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Lord Cobbold.
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