SD2745. Lady William Russell to William Cornwallis Cartwright

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 316 (in part).

[London]

28 Jan [1865] [1]

an insignificant Note in answer to your Letter — — I hope soon to hear of die liebe Clementia [2] — — — “in the straw”—— In the mean while I hear of Such Schmaus & |Braus| in the Babuino that it makes my mouth water! — — — — — — — — — — Browning asks after you & has not heard either from you or the Storys—— he has been annoyed by the reviews — — — & is in Labour of a new Poem — — — & is préocuppé has what Sidney Smith said of Macauley “occasional flashes of silence” — — — — But his Voice is like the brazen Trumpet on the Day of Judgement & would wake the Dead! — Julian Fane said to me “I am sorry you have dispell’d the Illusion by introducing the Poet to me — — — I admired his Poems & wish’d to know him, but find he has the manners of a grocer”!!! …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Northamptonshire Record Office.

1. The Cartwright’s third son, Arthur Frederick, was born 10 February 1865.

2. “The beloved Clementia.”

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