SD2456. Frederic Leighton to Augusta Leighton

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 288 (in part).

London

July 1861

Dearest Mammy,—Thanks for your kind letter, which I have been unable to answer till now. I had heard of poor Browning’s bereavement; we were all very much shocked at it, knowing, as we do, how entirely irreparable his loss is. I wrote a few lines to him that he might know how sincerely I grieved with him; I don’t at all know what were the circumstances of her death, we have no particulars. …

Text: Emilie I. Barrington, The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton (London, 1906), II, 64.

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