5072. RB to Richard Monckton Milnes
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 83–84.
19. Warwick Crescent,
Harrow Road.
May 23. ’62.
My dear Milnes,
I unluckily sprained my ancle yesterday & in the evening was unable to set foot to ground: I should, however, have endeavoured to limp up your stairs for the sake of the pleasure I was sure to find at the top of them, had I not been bound to remember that I am obliged to go into the country to-morrow to poor Mrs Twisleton’s funeral, tho’ I suffer any amount of inconvenience afterwards. Will you say something of this to Mrs Milnes [1] whom I should have been so happy to see?
Here is a letter of Landor’s in answer to what I wrote at your request: I feared that he might make some such objection. [2]
Ever yours most truly,
Robert Browning.
Address: Richard Monckton Milnes Esq M.P. / 16. Upper Brook St / Grosvenor Square. / W.
Publication: NL, p. 145.
Manuscript: Trinity College, Cambridge.
1. Annabella Hungerford Milnes (née Crewe, 1814–74).
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