5153. RB to Katherine Lyell

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 174.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Harrow Road.

Tuesday [Docket: 6 January 1863].

My dear Mrs Lyell,

All thanks to you for your goodness– I accept it for Robert with hearty pleasure, & he shall be at your house punctually on Saturday. For me, I must seem inattentive or forgetful—but, if you knew the calls on my time & my inability to do what I should like best!

Very faithfully yours

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Source: Transcript in editors’ file.

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