My dear Mrs Browning
I write to ask of you a favor, but before I do so I must make a little preface.
First, be assured that I am speaking sincerely and not complimentarily, when I say that ever since I have known your Poems I have felt the deepest interest in them & in their Author– They have appealed to me as all the best Poetry has & ever will—and it is because I have never expressed as I longed to this sympathy—because in conversation we have never met on this enchanted ground, so dear to me also—& because so very soon I shall be
[late April 1849]. Cranch, Christopher Pearse to Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.
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1849-04
Author
Cranch, Christopher Pearse
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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My dear Mrs Browning
I write to ask of you a favor, but before I do so I must make a little preface.
First, be assured that I am speaking sincerely and not complimentarily, when I say that ever since I have known your Poems I have felt the deepest interest in them & in their Author– They have appealed to me as all the best Poetry has & ever will—and it is because I have never expressed as I longed to this sympathy—because in conversation we have never met on this enchanted ground, so dear to me also—& because so very soon I shall be