722. RB to Anna Brownell Jameson [1]
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 217
Cambll
Friday. [ca. 1840] [2]
Dear Mrs Jameson,
I must throw my poor self on your goodness: I set out last evening as in duty bound, but,—(that willingness of spirit should avail so little against weakness of flesh!)—was quite unable to proceed farther than a house where an engagement of importance obliged me to call in my way; (I ought to have said that I have been unwell this long while)—I am better today.
—You will forgive this, I trust, and suffer me to take the chance of seeing you for a minute in some morning or evening ere a week pass?
Ever my dear Mrs Jameson,
Most faithfully yours,
R Browning.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. For details of the Brownings’ friendship with Mrs. Jameson, see pp. 320-323.
2. The Brownings moved from Camberwell to New Cross late in 1840. This letter must have been written prior to that.
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