The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Poems, Plays, Letters & Biographies in One Edition. Robert Browning
of Galuppi’s, A,” 120
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus and Theodosia, 59, 111, 112, 190, 229
“Two Poets of Croisic,” 236
“Valediction, A,” 84
Villari, Mme. Pasquale, 112
“Virgin Mary to the Child Jesus, The,” 46
“Vision of Poets, A,” 71
Wiedemann, Sarah Anna, 4-6
“Woman’s Last Word, A,” 120
Wordsworth, William, 30, 32, 55, 56, 59, 68, 94
Zampini, Fanny (Contessa Salazar), 161
Footnotes
[1] Letters of Robert Browning and Alfred Domett. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.
[2] Life of Robert Browning. London: Walter Scott, Limited.
[3] La Vie et l’œuvre de Elizabeth Browning, par Germaine-Marie Merlette; Licencie des lettres; Docteur de l’Université de Paris.
[4] Red Letter Days of my Life. London: Richard Bentley and Son.
[5] “Letters of Robert Browning and Alfred Domett.” New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company.
[6] Robert Browning: Life and Letters. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company.
[7] “La Vita e le Opere di Roberto et Elisabetta Barrett Browning. Rome: Societa Typografico-Editrice Nazionale.”
[8] William Wetmore Story and his Friends. Boston: The Houghton-Mifflin Co.
[9] Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett. London: John Murray.
[10] Alfred Lord Tennyson. London and New York: The Macmillan Co.
[11] Life of Phillips Brooks. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.
[12] Records of Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning. London: The Macmillan Company.
[13] Life and Letters of Sir John Millais. London: Methuen and Co.
[14] What I Remember. New York: Harper and Brothers.
[15] Alfred Lord Tennyson. London and New York: The Macmillan Company.
[16] William Wetmore Story. Boston: The Houghton-Mifflin Company.
[17] Alfred Lord Tennyson. London and New York: The Macmillan Co.
LETTERS
NOTE
In considering the question of publishing these letters, which are all that ever passed between my father and mother, for after their marriage they were never separated, it seemed to me that my only alternatives were to allow them to be published or to destroy them. I might, indeed, have left the matter to the decision of others after my death, but that would be evading a responsibility which I feel that I ought to accept.
Ever since my mother's death these letters were kept by my father in a certain inlaid box, into which they exactly fitted, and where they have always rested, letter beside letter, each in its consecutive order and numbered on the envelope by his own hand.
My father destroyed all the rest of his correspondence, and not long before his death he said, referring to these letters: 'There they are, do with them as you please when I am dead and gone!'
A few of the letters are of little or no interest, but their omission would have saved only a few pages, and I think it well that the correspondence should be given in its entirety.
I wish to express my gratitude to my father's friend and mine, Mrs. Miller Morison, for her unfailing sympathy and assistance in deciphering some words which had become scarcely legible owing to faded ink.
R.B.B.
1898.
R.B. to E.B.B.
New Cross, Hatcham, Surrey.
[Post-mark, January 10, 1845.]
I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett,—and this is no off-hand complimentary letter that I shall write,—whatever else, no prompt matter-of-course recognition of your