5330. RB to John Duke Coleridge

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 16.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

Feb. 9. ’64.

Dear Sir, [1]

You really humiliate me (pleasantly) by your goodness—you, with that heap of illustrations on your head, [2] to suppose I can be other than honoured by your notice!

I shall be very happy to dine with you on the day you so kindly propose,—and, always, to have as much of your notice as you may choose to extend to

Yours very faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: British Library.

1. John Duke Coleridge (1820–94), later (1874) 1st Baron Coleridge, barrister and judge.

2. “By the summer of 1860 he [Coleridge] had the largest junior practice on the western circuit” (ODNB), and the following year he was appointed Queen’s Counsel.

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