3431. Robert Bulwer Lytton to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 243.

[Florence]

[mid-June 1854] [1]

1 Park Lane London.

Dear Mrs Browning. This is my address in Engd But I hope that I shall see you this Evg– I shall wait an hour in that hope. And if I do not see you this must remind you how much of my heart I shall leave behind with you & B. and with what aff & faithful remembrance & hope my thoughts will always follow you wherever you go[.] Dear Mrs Browning I write this in your chair, with your pen on your paper, and feel rather abashed.

God bless you! from my heart I pray it, & am

Your faithful friend,

RBL

P.S.

The most important thing I had to say, I have nigh forgot which is—that my sevt shall bring you the Chaucer & the D Adverr [2] tomorrow morng–

Publication: BBIS-10, pp. 108–109 (as [?July 1855]).

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dated by Lytton’s reference to his departing for England. In letter 3430, RB writes that “Lytton goes to England in a few days.”

2. Doubtless the Newark Daily Advertiser that contained the review by Elizabeth Kinney of RB’s Poems (Boston, 1850); see letter 3234, note 3. She had presented RB with a copy of the review in July 1853; see the fourth paragraph in letter 3228.

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