2932. RB to Thomas Carlyle

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 88.

26 Devonshire St

[Postmark: 28 July 1851]

My dear Mr Carlyle,

Mr Kenyon had promised me your presence at his house to-morrow, or you would have seen me ere this: but he brings me, this minute, the news that you go into the country the next day & cannot dine with him. What am I to do,—with my five-years’ hunger for the sight of you & Mrs Carlyle?—unless you let me call to-morrow,—as I do think you will let me. Just a word by post to say at what hour in the day I may call—or may not. For instance, I will venture to call at 1. unless you write. In any case, my whole greeting and duty to you! My wife is with me in all this, and will accompany me of course—we being ever yours

faithfully, she as well as

R Browning

Address: Thomas Carlyle Esq / Cheyne Row / Chelsea.

Publication: LRB, p. 32.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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