4859. RB to Frances Davenport Perkins

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 47.

[Rome]

[ca. April 1861] [1]

My dear Mrs Perkins,

As you give me my choice so kindly, I elect for Tuesday evening early—thanking you for recognizing the right of so insignificant a person to an occasional whim—if whims are simply occasional to,

Yours very faithfully

Robert Browning.

My wife returns her best regards to your whole circle.

Publication: None traced.

Source: Transcript in editors’ file.

1. Approximate dating based on the Perkinses’ presence in Rome (1860–61) and by reference to letters 4834 and 4835.

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