SD2730. Lady William Russell to William Cornwallis Cartwright
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 310 (in part).
2 Audley Square
Mayfair
Sunday 12 [sic, for 13] November 1864
I expect letters from you, now that you are in Rome … Browning is well, amusing, welcome & frequent: If we could garòt him to prevent his bawling & gesticulating & standing, he would win all Hearts?—— aber er schreit wie ein Nachtwächter et se démène comme un Possedé [1] – …
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Northamptonshire Record Office.
1. “But he screeches like a Nightwatchman and conducts himself like one Possessed.”
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