516.5. William Charles Macready to RB

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 3.

Elstree.

Decr 19th 1835.

My dear Sir

Will you, as you promised, set distance at defiance, and let us have the pleasure of seeing you here on Thursday 31st inst. — There are coaches from the Green Man & Still, Oxford St, early in the afternoon, and we will be responsible for your bed &c.–

If I have the pleasure of seeing you, as I hope, I can then assure you more at large, how perfectly the poem of Paracelsus has realized the expectation I had formed from the partial glimpses given me by the reviews.

I am, dear Sir,

Your’s obliged and truly

W. C. Macready.

R. Browning Esq.

Address, on integral page: Robert Browning Esqr / Hanover Cottage / Southampton St / Camberwell.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Princeton University.

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