Supporting Documents

SD2948.  Frances Elinor Colvile to Jane Maria Strachey

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 378 (in part).

Norman Court

Decr 24th 1867

My dearest Janie,

In the usual hurry of leaving home I had not put up any paper for you …

Geo. Trevelyan was at Losely for two nights. There are merits in him. I can’t help liking him when I am with him. I think he is quieter & not so didactic too. He admires the great Robert, but said he had affectation. Young Herman Merivale is not improved in manner but the contrary. As he abuses R.B. of course I think little of him. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: India Office Records.

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