Correspondence

3763.  Charles Dickens to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 179.

Champs Elysées

Saturday Twelfth April, 1856

Dear Browning

Macready found himself obliged, yesterday, to arrange to leave Paris early this morning: having letters that called him home. A torrent of commissions swept him away all day, and he was in a state of semi-distraction until dinner time. He made me solemnly promise to write this morning and make known to you and Mrs Browning how it came to pass that he went away without repeating his visit. In discharge of my conscience I write this note.

always very faithfully yours

Charles Dickens

Robert Browning Esquire.

Address: Robert Browning Esquire.

Publication: The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. M. House, G. Storey, et al. (Oxford, 1965–2002), 8, 86.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

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