5067. RB to John Ruskin

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 81.

19. Warwick Crescent, Harrow Road.

Monday. [19 May 1862] [1]

My dear Ruskin,

Let it be on Wednesday,—always bearing with me if the rain (real heavy rain) prevents my going to you—but it surely will not. I must bring the Boy some other time & be grateful.

Do you know what I have done,—what a liberty I have taken?—& yet your goodness will even cheerfully forgive me in this particular case. Lord Carbery is deaf & dumb—with great intelligence and a passion for paintings & particularly drawings: he has the greatest desire to be allowed to call on you and be shown your wonderful Turners: I gave him a scratch of a note, promising to explain when I saw you next day—i.e last Saturday: should he find his way over before Wednesday with Lady Carbery (most amiable) you will be to them as you have ever been to

Yours affectionately ever

Robert Browning

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: McGill University.

1. Date provided by RB’s mention of writing a note of introduction for Lord Carbery “last Saturday,” the 17th, the same day he wrote a note introducing the Carberys to Millais (see letter 5066).

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