Correspondence

4986.  Matthew Arnold to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 253–254.

2, Chester Square,

Novber 4th, 1861.

My dear Mr Browning

Will you give us the pleasure of your company at dinner next Thursday, the 7th, at ¼ past 7? You will meet Mme du Quaire, and, I hope, Froude. [1]

Most truly yours,

M. Arnold.

Address: Robert Browning Esqre / 1, Chichester Road, / Upper Westbourne Terrace, / W.

Publication: The Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996–2001), 2, 97.

Manuscript: The Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds.

1. The other guests, besides Frances Mary du Quaire (née Blackett, 1822–95) and James Anthony Froude (1818–94), were Montagu Blackett (1826–66), Wyndham Slade (1826–1910), Patrick Cumin (1823–90), and Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–97); evidently, RB did not attend. See The Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Cecil Lang (6 vols., Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996–2001), 2, 98.

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