SD2879. Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 358.

[Bombay]

[March 1867]

I feel sure that Browning could never have received the letter you spoke of: had he done so he would have answered it. He may be—I believe is—in high, the best, London society, but he has not, and never had, any of the English hard and brusque arrogance about him—on the contrary, was Italian and diplomatic in his courteousness. Till his wife’s death we used to correspond—since then it has dropped, but quite as much through my fault as his. I am sure you will find he will be delighted to see you when you go back.

Publication: RB-AD, pp. 143–144.

Source: Transcript at British Library.

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