4590. RB to William Foster Apthorp
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 159.
[Rome]
Friday Mg [ca. February 1860] [1]
My dear Willy, [2]
Poor John is still unable to ride: if you can manage to get anybody to accompany you, and provided the weather is fine, Pen will be happy to be of the party, he desires me to say.
Yours very truly
Robert Browning.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. Approximate dating based on RB’s reference to John, the English groom in Rome, who is also mentioned in letters 4571, 4582, and 4589.
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