Correspondence

4939.  RB to Benjamin Barnard Appleton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 193.

Casa Guidi.

Thursday. [?25] [July 1861] [1]

Dear Sir, [2]

I have no intention of letting the apartment: I leave Florence for a long time, and a friend will dispose of every thing after my departure.

Yours very obediently

Robert Browning.

Dr B. B. Appleton.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dated by RB’s reference to leaving Florence.

2. Benjamin Barnard Appleton (1815–78), Boston physician. He and his wife, Katherine Emma (née Thompson, d. 1863, aged 47), had resided in Italy since the early 1850’s, due to ill health.

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