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FOOTNOTES:
[46] Ferdinando Romagnoli. He died at Venice, in the Palazzo Rezzonico, January 1893. His widow (who, as the following letters show, continued to be called Wilson in the family) is still living with Mr. R.B. Browning.
[47] This refers to a note from Mrs. Browning to Miss Haworth, inquiring whether it was true that she was engaged to be married.
[48] The notorious medium, prototype of Mr. Browning's 'Sludge.' He subsequently changed his name to Home.
[49] An attempted revision of the poem, subsequently abandoned, as explained in the preface addressed to M. Milsand in 1863.
[50] Mr. Browning and the boy had been suffering from sore throats.
[51] For the substance of this information I am indebted to Mr. Charles Aldrich, to whom the letter was presented by Mrs. Kinney, and through whose kindness it is here printed. The original now forms part of the Aldrich collection in the Historical Department of Iowa, U.S.A.
[52] The husband of Wilson, Mrs. Browning's maid.
[53] An odd commentary on this 'poem' may be found in Mrs. Orr's Life of Robert Browning, p. 219.