AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('Robert Browning'), to Miss [Barbara] Lyall, fulfilling her request for his opinion as to whether her brother's [Sir Alfred Lyall's] poem ['Retrospection'] is 'good in any way', returning it with thanks for the pleasure it has afforded him ('...I honestly think it very good indeed, a striking incident worthily commemorated and adequately rendered...'), and offering two suggestions for its improvement ('...I see no other defects than the trifling ones of a bad rhyme or two ("gleaming - dream in" – "quarter - water –"), which defects I should not mention were there anything greater to observe upon: besides, correction is easy...'), 1 page, octavo, integral leaf laid down on an album leaf with a near-contemporary note identifying Mrs R. Webb (née Barbara Lyall), naming her brother as the author of the poem 'Retrospection' and stating that it was afterwards published, with the original autograph envelope, stamped and postmarked, addressed to 'Miss Lyall, Palazzo Civrano, S.Gio. Grisostomo, Venezia', Palazzo Giustiniani-Recanati [Venice], 10 October 1883
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('Robert Browning'), to Miss [Barbara] Lyall, fulfilling her request for his opinion as to whether her brother's [Sir Alfred Lyall's] poem ['Retrospection'] is 'good in any way', returning it with thanks for the pleasure it has afforded him ('...I honestly think it very good indeed, a striking incident worthily commemorated and adequately rendered...'), and offering two suggestions for its improvement ('...I see no other defects than the trifling ones of a bad rhyme or two ("gleaming - dream in" – "quarter - water –"), which defects I should not mention were there anything greater to observe upon: besides, correction is easy...'), 1 page, octavo, integral leaf laid down on an album leaf with a near-contemporary note identifying Mrs R. Webb (née Barbara Lyall), naming her brother as the author of the poem 'Retrospection' and stating that it was afterwards published, with the original autograph envelope, stamped and postmarked, addressed to 'Miss Lyall, Palazzo Civrano, S.Gio. Grisostomo, Venezia', Palazzo Giustiniani-Recanati [Venice], 10 October 1883
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