Decr 24th 1840.
Dear Sir,
I prefer sending you my first thanks, to keeping them back even a day,—although doing so wd enable me to read through what your kindness sent, & this most probably, suggest[s] still better reasons for thanking you. But it is right to apprize you of the safe arrival—& the reasons are good enough already—seeing that—this kind attention wins quite unprovoked, & proceeded, besides, from a friend of Mr Horne’s, & a writer neither unknown nor unesteemed by the obliged. For I see the Monthly Chronicle—& had read some of the poems which accompanied the book.
Of the rest, it has not yet of course been possible for me to do more than read a little with my eyes & a little with
24 December 1840. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Powell, Thomas.
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1840-12-24
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Powell, Thomas
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Decr 24th 1840.
Dear Sir,
I prefer sending you my first thanks, to keeping them back even a day,—although doing so wd enable me to read through what your kindness sent, & this most probably, suggest[s] still better reasons for thanking you. But it is right to apprize you of the safe arrival—& the reasons are good enough already—seeing that—this kind attention wins quite unprovoked, & proceeded, besides, from a friend of Mr Horne’s, & a writer neither unknown nor unesteemed by the obliged. For I see the Monthly Chronicle—& had read some of the poems which accompanied the book.
Of the rest, it has not yet of course been possible for me to do more than read a little with my eyes & a little with