5048. RB to Richard Monckton Milnes

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 64.

1. Chichester Road,

Upper Westbourne Terrace,

Apr. 4. ’62.

My dear Milnes,

My word of explanation & apology will have reached you by this time. [1] On Sunday, with all my heart! [2] I might hardly have thought it needful to say so, but for your own amazing modesty,—should you really have supposed that one could oversleep oneself when you pleased to be up & ready for

Yours ever truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: NL, pp. 144–145.

Manuscript: Trinity College, Cambridge.

1. See the preceding letter.

2. As indicated in letter 5051, RB’s invitation was for Sunday breakfast. Milnes is listed in the Brownings’ address book of this period (AB-4) at 16 Upper Brook Street.

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