3082. Emily Tennyson to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 187–188.

Chapel House

Twickenham

Augst 9th [1852] [1]

My dear Mrs Browning,

Right welcome will you be. I wish we could put off the time to a day more convenient to you than Friday but my Dr. names the 15th as the latest day on which I may move to town. If it were not so I would say pray come here for several days and see all that is pleasant around us. As it is I am obliged to talk about dinner. 1/2 past 5 is the hour our friends generally choose because of the quicker train which brings them down for that hour. Will this suit you? I will not give you the trouble of writing again if it do but if it do not, if you fear the night air or if any other cause make you wish to fix another hour, do so, we beg.

Most sincerely yours

Emily Tennyson

Publication: The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, ed. Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., 1981–90), 2, 36.

Source: Microfilm of manuscript at University of Virginia.

1. Year provided by Emily Tennyson’s mention of “the 15th as the latest day” she could “move to town.” She referred to the 15th in letter 3077.

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