SD2567. Algernon Charles Swinburne to Alice Swinburne

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 345 (in part).

16 Grafton Street, London

31 March [1862] [1]

… I lately have been introduced to Browning to my great delight of course, but as yet have not seen much of him. His wife’s latest poems are just out—some very fine things in them, & some weak & ugly ones. However, as coming just after her death, I suppose people will make much of them, which they deserve. …

Publication: None traced.

Source: Bonhams Catalogue, 24 June 2008, Lot 158.

1. Year provided by Swinburne’s reference to Last Poems (1862).

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