Correspondence

5083.  RB to William Stirling

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 90.

19. Warwick Crescent, Harrow Rd

June 1. ’62

My dear Mr Stirling, [1]

It will give me great pleasure to dine with you as you so kindly propose—on the Storys’ account, [2] certainly, but also for the purpose of strengthening an acquaintance so pleasantly begun at the “Athenæum” a few weeks ago.

Yours very faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Glasgow City Archives.

1. William Stirling (afterwards, 1865, Stirling-Maxwell, 1818–78), M.P. for Perthshire (1852–68).

2. Stirling served on the Committee of Fine Arts for the International Exhibition of 1862.

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