Correspondence

3702.  RB to Edward Livingston Welles

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 54.

Paris, 3 Rue du Colisée,

Dec. 27. ’55.

Dear Sir, [1]

Pray forgive the delay in complying with your request [2] made in a letter which has been returned to us from Florence after considerable wayfaring.

Yours very cordially,

Robert Browning–

Elizabeth Barrett Browning–

Robert Browning.

Publication: Facsimile in Edward Livingston Welles, “My Autograph-Book,” St. Nicholas; an Illustrated Magazine, April 1891, p. 458.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Edward Livingston Welles (1830–1902), a New York City banker, was born in Utica, New York, to John Welles and his wife, Sarah Rice (née Hurlbut).

2. i.e., for the Brownings’ autographs, which they have written below.

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