SD807. Walter Savage Landor to John Forster

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

[Heidelberg]

[10 August 1836] [1]

<***> When you told us that the author of Paracelsus would be a great poet, you came rather too late in the exercise of prophecy—he was one already, and will be among the greatest. I hope he does not relax in that scirocco of faint praise which brother poets are fond of giving. Such as yours will brace him against it.

I am

My dear Sir

Yours very sincerely

W. S. Landor

Docket: Postmark / “Heidelberg, 10 Aug. 1836” / I received letter 16. Aug. 1836. / John Forster.

Publication: BBIS-5, p. 17.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dated by docket. Preserved with this fragment is a note in RB’s hand: “Walter S. Landor / Aug: 26. 1836.”

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