SD2604. Lady Rose Weigall to Julian Fane

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 352 (in part).

London

October 15, 1862.

We arrived safely last night, having slept at Derby. …

I went yesterday evening to Lady William’s, where I found Mr. Browning (the poet, not the architect, whom the name always reminds me of), who told me he expected Lytton over soon. There was an animated discussion between him and Lord Stratford about America, Browning being a Northerner, and drawing his inspirations avowedly from the Storys and Mr. Motley; and Lord S. being a Southerner, as most people here now are. …

Text: Rachel Weigall, Lady Rose Weigall (London, 1923), pp. 108–109.

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