SD2615. John Forster to Edward Chapman

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 354 (in part).

46 Montagu Square W

25th Novemb: 1862

My dear Chapman

I shall try to call in Picadilly today if I go out—but I am not well and may be obliged to keep house today–

I have sent back the Browning Preface corrected—tell Frederick—and have desired Mr Clay to read your revise–

I wish you & Frederick would look at the title page. I don’t quite like the appearance yet. The titles want elegance—as well as the arrangement of them[.]

“Selections from the Poetical Works of R B” will perhaps be best for title–

Tell Frederick he has not sent the Goldsmith pages [illegible word]. But I suppose he will soon be back in town again! He might not, I think take his wife to the Cottage this very cold weather. There are limits to what the youngest and strongest of us can bear—and a bad cold in this winter time is a bad thing–

Give my kindest regard to Mrs Chapman & the Great Girls–

Very sincerely Yr

John Forster

I’ll call tomorrow morning on chance of Fredericks being back.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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