1332. RB to Charles Dickens

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 7, 252.

New Cross, Hatcham,

July 21. [1843] [1]

My dear Dickens,

The Bearer of this, Mr Mautner of Vienna, [2] desires exceedingly the honour of an introduction to you before he leaves London; and I sympathize so much with such a desire, that I venture to beg you will, in gratifying it, add another to the obligations of,

My dear Dickens,

Yours ever faithfully,

Robert Browning

Address: Charles Dickens Esq. / 1 Devonshire Terrace / York Gate, Regent’s Park.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Boston University.

1. Year provided by Dickens’s reply (letter 1334).

2. Presumably G.M. Mautner, whose name appears on the cover of RB’s address book used during this period (Reconstruction, E520). Mautner’s address is given as 43 Great Portland Street.

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