Supporting Documents

SD806.  Walter Savage Landor to Lady Blessington

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 3, 331 (in part).

[Bath]

[August 1836]

<***> If you have, [1] I doubt whether you will be inclined to think the frame of her mind at all adapted to the Book of Beauty. Latterly, I hear, she is become quite absorbed in her devotional contemplations. I never saw her but once. It was at my friend Kenyon’s, and I conversed with her only for about ten minutes. Hearing that she was an excellent Greek scholar, I gave her a few Greek verses, which I happened to recollect at the moment, and which I think were among the last I had written. However, I will not delay my inquiries of Kenyon whether she will compose something, or whether she has anything already composed which may be inserted in the Book of Beauty.

I will also ask Richard Milnes.

Text: Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy, The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington (London, 1896), II, 166–167.

1. Landor writes to ask Lady Blessington if she has ever read EBB’s poems.

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