SD2497. John Forster to Thomas Carlyle

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 302 (in part).

Abergavenny

11th August 1861

Dear Carlyle

I meant to have sent you a line before I came away on this Welsh pilgrimage—but I was hurried at the last, and could not.

I wished to send you this letter of Browning’s about his wife’s death and his own future plans—the substance of which he permits me to tell to any friends interested in him, and I know your interest, as well as his reverence & regard for you. Dear Mrs Carlyle, too, might care to see what he says. It is a very manly, true, & honest letter—I think: increasing one’s love for Browning[.] …

PS. You’ll send back B’s letter, when quite done with, to 46 Montagu Square?

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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