Correspondence

5085.  RB to Helena Faucit Martin

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 94.

19. Warwick Crescent, Harrow Road.

June 13. ’62

Dear Mrs Martin, [1]

I am not engaged, fortunately for me, next Thursday [2] —but is it so fortunately for you?—who, with Mr Martin, [3] must already have had enough of

Yours most truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Bodleian Library.

1. Helena Faucit Martin (née Saville, 1814–98); see letter 3162, note 1.

2. The 19th. In RB’s letter to Isa Blagden of that date, he writes: “To day I dine at the Martins—as I did last week” (letter 5089).

3. Theodore Martin (1816–1909); see letter 3162, note 1.

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