2942. William Makepeace Thackeray to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 103–104.

Whitefriars, London. [1]

Saturday. [6 September 1851] [2]

Dear Browning

Your note was sent on to me at Brighton where I have been hiding from mankind and trying to work and get well .. or I should have bidden you welcome to England ere this, and asked to be introduced to Mrs Browning.

But I dont think I’m going to leave Kensington [3] for where can I get a house cheaper than 65£ a year?

Yours always sincerely

W M Thackeray

Address: Robert Browning Esqr / 26 Devonshire Street.

Publication: The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Edgar F. Harden (New York, 1994), p. 427.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. The return address is printed on the stationery of Thackeray’s publisher, Bradbury and Evans, whose offices were located in Fleet Street, Whitefriars.

2. Day and month provided by postmark. The year is determined by reference to the Brownings’ address.

3. Thackeray’s address at this time was 13 Young Street, Kensington.

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