SD2709. Diary Entry of William Allingham

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 306 (in part).

[London ]

7 July [1864]

Lunch with Browning: tell him of the pseudo-Dervish and the English Mohammedan, which amuses him. He wishes he had been at the breakfast; it seems he had an invitation, but too late. Mr. Robert Lytton comes in—‘Joachim; Tennyson; Browning’s new poem in blank verse.’ Out with B.

Text: William Allingham, A Diary, ed. H. Allingham & D. Radford (London, 1908), p. 104.

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