SD2818. Sarianna Browning to Frederick Locker

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 345 (in part).

151, rue de Grenelle F. St Gern

Feby 24th [1866]

My dear Mr Locker,

In my father’s name, and in my own, I return you true thanks for the valuable Hogarth prints which have just reached us. With some of them—those which he presumes to be illustrations of the Cassandra—he was quite unacquainted; and I suppose only a collector can fully enter into the feelings with which a fellow collector appreciates such a generous gift. I thank you most heartily for the pleasure you have given him, and I am also your debtor for a photograph you sent me some time since, which is now adorning my album.

The late long continued severe weather has prevented my father, who dislikes cold, from getting out much, but he is in good health. I hope you have not suffered—and how is your sweet little girl?

Pray give our kindest regards to Lady Charlotte, and believe me ever

Most truly yours,

Sarianna Browning.

Publication: Augustine Birrell, Frederick Locker-Lampson: A Character Sketch (London, 1920), p. 104.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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