Correspondence

1618.  RB to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth

An amended version of the text that appeared in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9, 1.

[London]

Tuesday Eg [18 June 1844] [1]

My dear Miss Haworth,

To-morrow night, as you prophecy, I am engaged past remedy at Blackheath: on Friday morning I breakfast with Milnes—& then come back—how can I go again town-wards? All the while; I want to pay this visit more than you can want me. Another time I shall be less unlucky. I am very sorry, too, at not being able to hear more Anti-Corn law speeches,—will Fox be there? [2] (By the way (what way, though?) I called on—(or rather was led to)—Lady Morgan yesterday, and gracious was she, I can tell you.

And now, thank you again for your good sympathy & free praise– I feel more than I have got in the habit of saying of late years, about such kindness—if I do not deserve it, you cannot be harmed by keeping an “open sense” for beauty or attempts at the same.

Ever yours faithfully,

R Browning.

Àpropos of Fox—see what I have fished up out of a heap—send me it again, please: there is a credit in having been so written to!

Publication: BC, 9, 1 (in part).

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Date provide by reference to RB declining an invitation to attend a meeting of the National Anti-Corn Law League on the following evening, 19 June 1844. It was held at Covent Garden Theatre.

2. W.J. Fox was one of the principal speakers of the evening. He shared the platform with John Bowring and the Rev. Thomas Spencer. George Wilson was in the chair.

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