5027. RB to Richard Monckton Milnes

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 41.

1. Chichester Road

Upper Westbourne Terrace

Feb. 18. ’62.

My Dear Milnes,

I want extremely to see you—to thank you for the prosperous issue of the “Athenæum”-business, [1] & for other kindnesses. Next Saturday, however, I am going to Paris (for just a week). If anything keeps me a day or two longer here, pray let me write a word on Friday and so save the pleasure I must otherwise forego, or look forward to on some later occasion.

Ever yours faithfully,

Robert Browning.

Publication: T. Wemyss Reid, Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes (London, 1890), II, 79.

Manuscript: Trinity College, Cambridge.

1. i.e., his election to the Athenæum Club, announced in letter 5017.

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