1802. RB to Unidentified Correspondent

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

[London]

[ca. 1845] [1]

<***> Nothing, certainly, can be kinder than your Invitation for next Sunday: I shall be delighted to do as you propose, and take the train recommended .. which, no doubt, is as easily available for one’s return at night. But, you must know, I am not very well this week .. so that should “half-past three” bring nobody,—do pray forgive, and duly compassionate

Yours most sincerely, and

much obliged,

Robt Browning

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Conjectural date based upon RB’s mourning stationery which he used during this period, presumably because of the death of his uncle, William Silverthorne, in June 1844.

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