Correspondence

723.  RB to Catherine Frances Macready

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 218.

[London]

Friday Morning. [ca. 1840] [1]

My dear Mrs Macready,

Such a note would spirit me to Constantinople for the fellow to the barbaric attempt at a bottle you mention so kindly––yet I have barely to seek Cumberland Terrace! “My friend is cut, ’tis done at your request.” [2] Pray believe me, with sincerest regards to all,

My dear Mrs Macready,

Yours ever faithfully,

Robt Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. The handwriting and form of signature place the letter in this approximate period.

2. Cf. Othello, III, 3, 474.

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