SD2649. Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff to Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 360 (in part).

4 Queen’s Gate Gardens.

South Kensington. W. London.

le 8 Juilles 1863.

My dear Sir.

I have not yet thanked you for your so kindly sending to me your very interesting volume of Essays, which were the more acceptable, as although I have your “Melanges de Critiques religieuses” I had never read any of the other papers. We have seen Monsieur Boutmy and his friend Monsieur Paul Tripier several times since they came to London, and I was glad to have an opportunity of introducing the former to Kinglake, Colenso, Browning, Matthew Arnold, and some others. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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