Correspondence

4592.  Charlotte Cushman to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 159–160.

38 Via Gregoriana, Io

Wednesday Feby 1st [1860] [1]

Dear Mr Browning

Will you have the time and inclination to look in upon us tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 8/4. & take a social cup of tea.

Yours very Truly

Charlotte Cushman

May I have the Rondinella, [2] or will that Story never end?

Address: Mr Browning / 28. Via del Tritone 2d.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. The only year the Brownings and Miss Cushman were both in Rome on Wednesday, 1 February was 1860.

2. Perhaps a reference to the Tuscan folksong “La Rondinella,” which is an Italian diminutive for rondine, a swallow (bird).

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