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It has been placed by the direction of Lady Martin on the adjoining wall. It was in the September of this year that Mr. Browning heard of the death of M. Joseph Milsand.
With the exception of Milsand, he appears to have admitted no man to his heart, though he gave a portion of his intellect to many. His friends, in the more intimate sense of the word, were women, towards whom his feeling was that of comradeship and fraternal affection without over-much condescension or any specially chivalric sentiment.
I have quoted elsewhere, but the book from which the quotation is made is so rare that I may well quote here again, some remarkable words on this subject from M. Milsand, Mr. Browning's friend, and the recipient of the Dedication of the reprint of Sordello.
With the name of Milsand connects itself in the poet's life that of a younger, but very genuine friend of both, M. Gustave Dourlans: a man of fine critical and intellectual powers, unfortunately neutralized by bad health. M. Dourlans also became a visitor at Warwick Crescent, and a frequent correspondent of Mr. or rather of Miss Browning.
M. Milsand died, in 1886, of apoplexy, the consequence, I believe, of heart-disease brought on by excessive cold-bathing. The first reprint of 'Sordello', in 1863, had been, as is well known, dedicated to him. The 'Parleyings', published within a year of his death, were inscribed to his memory. Mr.
And in Red Cotton Nightcap Country it is Milsand who is characterised in the lines: He knows more and loves better than the world That never heard his name and never may, ... What hinders that my heart relieve itself, O friend! who makest warm my wintry world, And wise my heaven, if there we consort too.
Milsand, we are told by his friend Th. "Only a Frenchman," exclaimed Browning, grasping both hands of his visitor, "would have done this." So began a friendship of an intimate and most helpful kind, which closed only with Milsand's death in 1886. To his memory is dedicated the volume published soon after his death, Parleyings with certain People of Importance.
M. Joseph Milsand His close Friendship with Mr. Browning; Mrs. Browning's Impression of him New Edition of Mr. Browning's Poems 'Christmas Eve and Easter Day' 'Essay' on Shelley Summer in London Dante Gabriel Rossetti Florence; secluded Life Letters from Mr. and Mrs. Browning 'Colombe's Birthday' Baths of Lucca Mrs. Browning's Letters Winter in Rome Mr. and Mrs. Story Mrs. Sartoris Mrs.
He has intellectual conscience or say the conscience of the intellect, in a higher degree than I ever saw in any man of any country and this is no less Robert's belief than mine. When we hear the brilliant talkers and noisy thinkers here and there and everywhere, we go back to Milsand with a real reverence.
Browning's affection for him finds utterance in a few strong words which I shall have occasion to quote. An undated fragment concerning him from Mrs. Browning to her sister-in-law, points to a later date than the present, but may as well be inserted here. . . . I quite love M. Milsand for being interested in Penini. What a perfect creature he is, to be sure!
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