ER WESTBOURNE TERRACE, Feb. 1872.

MY DEAR MR. DOMETT,--My brother was so sorry to miss you yesterday; he
is a man of many engagements, and unfortunately is engaged every
evening next week, or I would ask you to join our family dinner as
soon as possible--but meanwhile, as he is impatient to see you, will
you be very kind and come to lunch with us on Monday at one o'clock?
We shall be delighted to meet you. If you cannot come on Monday, name
some other morning.

Always Yours Truly,

SARIANNA BROWNING.

The old friendship between Browning and Domett was renewed with constant
intercourse and interchange of delightful letters. Milsand was in the
habit of passing a part of every spring with Browning in his home in
Warwick Crescent, and with the arrival of Domett a warm and sincere
friendship united all three.

Once, in Scotland, as the guest of Ernest Benzon, when Browning missed
part of a visit from Milsand, the poet said: "No words can express the
love I have for Milsand, increasingly precious as he is." The Benzons were
at that time in the hills above Loch Tummel, where Jowett was staying,
Swinburne also with the Master of Balliol. Had there been a phonograph to
register the conversation of such a trio as Jowett, Browning, and
Swinburne, its records would be eagerly sought.

A fragmentary record, indeed, remains in a note made by Edwin Harrison,
who was with Jowett at this time. In his diary Mr. Harrison recorded:

"R. B. was in the neighborhood, staying at Little Milton, above Loch
Tummel, where he was perpetrating 'Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau' at the
rate of so many lines a day, neither more nor less. He walked over to
see Jowett one afternoon, very keen about a fanciful rendering he had
imagined for lines in the Alcestis. A few evenings later we met him
and his son at dinner at Altaine House, by the foot of the loch. You
may be sure that where Jowett and Browning were, the conversation was
animated and interesting."

In "Balaustion's Adventure" the poet seemed to take captive the popular
appreciation of the day, for more than three thousand copies had been sold
within the first six months, and his sister told Domett that she regarded
it as the most swiftly appreciated poem of all her brother's works.
Certainly it is one of the most alluring of Browning's works,--this
delightful treatment of the interwoven life of mortals and of the immorta