SD2200. Bryan Waller Procter to John Forster

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 362 (in part).

[26 New Steine, Brighton]

Sunday [29 August 1858] [1]

(P.S. Private)

Yes, it is true. …

I hear the Brownings are at Havre—& that Lady Lytton and her son are at Bordeaux. I have been reading “Aurora Leigh” here. It is really a very remarkable book. No one would suppose that some of the passages were written by a female hand. …

Give my love to Mrs J.F.

Yours ever

B.W. Procter

Publication: Richard Willard Armour, Barry Cornwall, a Biography of Bryan Waller Procter (Boston, 1935), p. 247.

Manuscript: Victoria and Albert Museum.

1. This is headed “(P.S. Private)” and probably is a p.s. to a letter dated “Friday Aug. 27. 1858.”

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