SD2795. Diary Entry of William Allingham
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 342 (in part).
[Farringford]
1 November [1865]
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 342 (in part).
Breakfast—[Rev. William] Barnes. Showed him the Ancient Laws of Ireland, and read … Barnes has been invited to go with me to Farringford, and we cross to Yarmouth.
We talk of Browning, for whom T. has a very strong personal regard. ‘Browning must think himself the greatest man living. I can’t understand how he should care for my poetry. His new poem has 15,000 lines—there’s copiousness! I can’t venture to put out a thing without care. Good-night.’
Text: William Allingham, A Diary, ed. H. Allingham & D. Radford (London, 1908), pp. 126–128.
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