SD2922. Matthew Arnold to Edward Penrose Arnold

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 371 (in part).

Cambridge

July 23, 1867

My dearest Edward

I write in the early morning, before people are up, and with the pinnacles of King’s College in at my window. …

I shall be interested in hearing what you think of the poems; some of them, I feel sure, will interest you. There are two or three bad faults of punctuation which you will observe and correct. Empedocles takes up much room, but Browning’s desire that I should reprint Empedocles was really the cause of the volume appearing at all. …

Publication: The Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996–2001), 3, 161–162.

Manuscript: Balliol College.

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