Correspondence

5070.  RB to Imperial Gas Company

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 82.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Harrow Road,

May 20. ’62

Gentlemen,

I beg to inform you that I have taken the above house, unfurnished, of Col. Moffat [1] since May 8th ult: and will be answerable for gas burned there since that date

Your obedient Servt

Robert Browning

To the Directors of the Imperial Gas Company.

Address, on integral page: The Directors of the / Imperial Gas Company.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Col. Bowland Moffat (1813–90) had been transferred to the Bahamas as commanding officer of the 1st West India Regiment on 4 March 1862. His son, Eustace William Douglas Moffat (1845–92), was in residence until RB took possession.

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