SD2821. Benjamin Jowett to Florence Nightingale
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 346 (in part).
Rectory, Bishopsgate
April 6 [1866]
I am sorry that I frightened you with 20 years of life. No wonder that you cannot …
Browning on the other hand, who is about the same age as Tennyson, looks forward to writing more or less unintelligible verses for 30 years longer. I think that he has great enjoyment of life: he is a fine fellow.
Publication: Dear Miss Nightingale: A Selection of Benjamin Jowett’s Letters to Florence Nightingale, ed. Vincent Quinn and John Prest (Oxford, 1987), pp. 84–86.
Manuscript: Balliol College.
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