3152. RB to Edward Twisleton
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 291–292.
[Florence]
Thursday Mg [?23] [December 1852] [1]
Dear Mr Twisleton, [2]
I have to beg your leave to put off our call on Mr Kirkup for a day or two—say, till Saturday: I was so beset by a vile cold yesterday that I was unable to go and arrange for his being at home. But to-morrow I will see him, & on Saturday,—if agreeable to you,—have the pleasure of accompanying Mrs Twisleton & yourself to his house.
Ever yours faithfully,
Robert Browning.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. Dating suggested by reference to letters that Mrs. Twisleton was writing at this time. In Florence, the Twisletons first visited the Brownings at Casa Guidi on 10 December 1852 (see SD1624), and they met again on 21 December (see SD1625). We place this letter on the Thursday after their second meeting.
2. Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton (1809–74), youngest son of Thomas James Twisleton (1770–1824), Archdeacon of Colombo, and his second wife Anne (née Ash), was the brother of Frederick Benjamin Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye and Sele. A fellow of Balliol College (1830–38), Twisleton became a barrister of the Inner Temple and served on many government commissions. He married on 19 May 1852 Ellen Dwight (1828–62), daughter of Edmund Dwight (1780–1849), a wealthy Boston merchant, and his wife Mary Harrison (née Eliot, 1788–1846). Mrs. Twisleton was Charles Eliot Norton’s first cousin.
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