SD2736. Lady William Russell to William Cornwallis Cartwright

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 313 (in part).

[London]

[mid-December 1864] [1]

I am sorry you should be uneasy about your Brother … Browning is Vivacious to excess—he talks too much & too loud & he is like the Pendulum of a Clock when he stands & like a man rowing against the stream when sitting — — — his conversation is excellent, & er ist ein braver gescheidter mann [2] —but Stentorian & acrobatic to a marvellous degree!?—— …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Northamptonshire Record Office.

1. In answer to letter of 28 November [1864].

2. “he is an honest clever man.”

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