Quoted by Mr Sharp in his "Life of Browning," p. 21, n., from Mrs Fraser Cockran.
"Autobiography of a Journalist," i. 277.
For my quotations and much of the above information I am indebted to Mr F. Herbert Stead, Warden of the Robert Browning Settlement, Walworth. In Robert Browning Hall are preserved the baptismal registers of Robert (June 14th, 1812), and Sarah Anna Browning, with other documents from which I have quoted.
Letters of R.B. and E.B.B., i. 528, 529; and (for Ossian), ii. 469.
Browning in a letter to Mr Wise says that this happened "some time before 1830 (or even earlier). The books," he says, "were obtained in the regular way, from Hunt and Clarke." Mr Gosse in Personalia gives a different account, pp. 23, 24.