I am content about Savoy.
Dearest Isa, you and your 'Saturday Reviewer' shall have Robert's portrait.

Are you sure he didn't ask for _mine_?
How good you are to us and Landor! God bless you, says Your tenderly loving BA.
* * * * * _To Mr.Chorley_ 28 Via del Tritone, Rome: April 13, [1860].
My dear Mr.Chorley,--It is always better to be frank than otherwise; sometimes it is necessary to be frank--that is when one would fain keep a friend, yet has a thing against him which burns in one.

I shall put my foot on this spark in a moment; but first I must throw it out of my heart you see, and here it is.
Dearest Mr.Chorley, you have not been just to me in the matter of my 'Poems before Congress.' Why have you not been just to me?
You are an honest man and my friend.

Those two things might go together.

Your opinions, critical or political, are free from stress of friendship.