2096.5. RB to Richard Hengist Horne

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 11.

[London]

Thursday Nt [13 November 1845] [1]

My dear Horne,

I reciprocate the squeeze and wish you well from my heart. At the end of the month, or sooner, or later, give me but a couple of days notice to enable me to put off any engagement I may have, and I will look for your glad presence here the first thing in the morning & a good hearty friendly poets’ day we will have of it, please the Lares: I thank you, too, for the easy confidence with which you stipulate for the very best dish we, of these wild parts, can set before Travellers: our mutton is rare & famous .. but never mind, nothing shall be too good for you! I thoroughly lay myself out to enjoy the new book– King John and the Monk I bet upon already.

Ever yours,

RB.

Address: R. H. Horne Esqre / Hill Side, Fitzroy Park, / Highgate.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Date provided by the postmark of 14 November 1845, a Friday.

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