SD2440. Odo Russell to Lady William Russell

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 284 (in part).

Rome.

Easter Monday. 1 April 1861.

My dear M.M.

I have just returned from St. Peters to see the lighting up of the Church, which could not take place yesterday because of the rain. …

I saw Browning yesterday who is without exception the most agreeable man I ever met. His wife continues very ill and never goes out at all. The little boy is a “Wunder kind” and plays Chopin’s music at sight and writes poems without seeming to be conscious of it. …

Publication: None traced.

Source: Transcript at Public Record Office.

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