5898. RB to Unidentified Correspondent

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 198.

[London]

[ca. May 1867] [1]

<***> ; & I told you of <the> articles of his in the Saturday Review & Westminster, [2] and gave you his address. Having heard nothing since I am sure that either my letter, or your answer

<...>

acquaintance with a very clever and distinguished man.

Pray believe me,

Yours very faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Source: Transcript in editors’ file.

1. Conjecturally dated by the narrow width of the black border of the mourning stationery, which RB used during the year following the death of his father on 14 June 1866.

2. The writer of the articles is probably W.C. Cartwright.

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