SD2872. Matthew Arnold to Mary Penrose Arnold

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 357 (in part).

Athenæum Club, Pall Mall, S.W.

February 16, 1867

My dearest Mother

Flu undertakes Budge this week, so you shall have your letter on Sunday morning though it will cost me a second stamp. …

Fan will have been interested by the project of putting Browning up for the Chair of Poetry; but I think the Convocation will object to granting the degree just before the election, for the express purpose of eluding the statute. If Browning is enabled to stand, I shall certainly vote for him—but I think Doyle will get in. …

Publication: The Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996–2001), 3, 114–115.

Manuscript: Balliol College.

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