1801. RB to Richard Monckton Milnes

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 10, 2.

New Cross, Hatcham, Surrey,

Friday Mg [ca. 1845] [1]

My dear Mr Milnes,

I am sure I am very much obliged to you for your kind remembrance of me: I shall try & avail myself of the Ticket to-morrow Evening [2] —and it would materially increase the pleasure of my visit, if I could have the advantage of your company on the occasion. Can, & shall it be?– I will join you at any time & place you may choose to appoint—if you will write by next post and apprise me. Or, if I am not so fortunate—will you have the goodness to signify to me the ordinary time for attending you & so further oblige,

Yours very truly,

R Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Trinity College, Cambridge.

1. This letter bears a watermark of 1844, and it could have been written any time between that year and when the Brownings left for Italy in September 1846.

2. We have been unable to identify a specific event associated with this “Ticket.”

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