SD820.3. James John Garth Wilkinson to Unidentified Correspondent

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 3.

[London]

[ca. 2 May 1837]

You are curious to hear about “Strafford.” Well, you shall be told. … We all formed a formidable body at the box door; … there were three dozen of us together. The house was crammed to the utmost, and the audience very respectable. The first Act went off rather heavily, but the play gained as it proceeded, and in spite of a most miserable “cast of characters,” it must be considered a most successful production. The applause at its termination was prodigious, and lasted for something like twenty minutes, mingled with the most vociferous cries for the author, who, however, did not appear.

Text: Clement John Wilkinson, James John Garth Wilkinson (London, 1911), pp. 31–32.

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