5079. RB to Catherine Frances Cartwright

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 88.

19. Warwick Crescent, Harrow Road.

[ca. June 1862] [1]

Dear Mrs Cartwright, [2]

You are very good, & I am very sensible of such goodness. It would be a great pleasure for me to meet Lady Cartwright. [3] I am engaged on Monday unluckily, but if Tuesday would suit you I shall be happy to go to you—might I ask for somewhat an early hour, as I have to proceed elsewhere afterward?

Believe me, Dear Mrs Cartwright,

Yours very sincerely

Robert Browning.

My best respects to Mr R. Cartwright.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Texas A&M University.

1. The letter is written on black-edged stationery with RB’s crest embossed in black. He was using such stationery from late May to early August 1862.

2. Catherine Frances Cartwright (née Prior, 1815–81). Her husband, mentioned below, Robert Cartwright (1805–99), barrister, was an uncle of RB’s close friend William Cornwallis Cartwright. Mrs. Cartwright is listed in the Brownings’ address book of this period (AB-4) at Craven Hill, a short street on the north side of Hyde Park.

3. W.C. Cartwright’s mother, Maria Elizabeth (“Lili”) Cartwright (née von Sandizell, 1805–1902), was the widow of Sir Thomas Cartwright (1795–1850), British diplomat (see vol. 28, p. 343.

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