Correspondence

3710.  RB to Charles Hamilton Aidé

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 69.

[Paris]

Saturday Mg [5 January1856] [1]

My dear Aïdé,

Do you care about hearing Mignet this morning? [2] He speaks well, I remember. If you are engaged, give the ticket to anybody minded to take it.

With kindest regards to Mrs Aïdé,

Yours faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Date provided by RB’s reference to Mignet; see note 2.

2. On 5 January 1856, François Auguste Alexis Mignet (1796–1884) delivered a lecture at the French Institute on the life and works of the philosopher Pierre Laromiguière (1756–1837). It was published later in the year as Notice historique sur la vie et les travaux de M. Laromiguière: lue à la séance publique annuelle du 5 janv. 1856.

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