888. EBB to John Kenyon

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 5, 195.

[London]

Wednesday night– [ca. 1842] [1]

My dear Mr Kenyon At last I come upon your kindness, empowered to ask a “specific question”—and this is, whether there is at Dresden any academy or institute of the military character where a young Englishman who is waiting for a commission, may wait advantageously—? My uncle [2] would be very glad & obliged if you were to procure this information for him—and yet, knowing how much occupied you are, I almost reproach my own words for saying so.

Ever yours EBB

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

1. Dated by the handwriting, which could be of this period or any of the next several years.

2. Probably Thomas Butler, who had four sons.

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