4110. RB to Anne Herbert

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 1.

[Florence]

Monday. [ca. January 1858] [1]

Dear Lady Herbert, [2]

Truest thanks for your great kindness in thinking of me on such an occasion: I am unfortunately engaged to-night—and my wife would hardly be able in any case to accept your invitation. But your goodness is the same—& her kind thanks & regards go with those of

Yours very faithfully

Robert Browning

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Approximate dating based on stationery and handwriting.

2. Anne Herbert (née Jeffreys, 1785–1860), the widow of Sir Charles Lyon Herbert (1784–1855), an English physician who had practiced in Florence.

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