Once the whole household, with Flush included, breathed rural air for two days with friends at Farnham, and Browning had there the pleasure of meeting Charles Kingsley, whose Christian Socialism seemed wild and unpractical enough, but as for the man himself, brave, bold, original, full of a genial kindliness, Mrs Browning assures a correspondent that he could not be other than "good and noble let him say or dream what he will." It is stated by Mr W.M.
Rossetti that Browning first became acquainted with his brother Dante Gabriel in the course of this summer.

Coventry Patmore gave him the manuscript of his unpublished poems of 1853 to read.

And Ruskin was now added to the number of his personal acquaintances.

"We went to Denmark Hill yesterday, by agreement," wrote Mrs Browning in September, "to see the Turners--which, by the way, are divine.

I like Mr Ruskin much, and so does Robert.