Correspondence

5090.  RB to Anna Julia Grant Duff

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 100–101.

19. Warwick Crescent, Harrow Road.

June 23. ’62.

Dear Mrs Grant Duff, [1]

How glad I should be to go to you, if I could, you must know, I think—but next Saturday is the saddest of all days to me. [2]

With best regards to your Husband,

Ever yours most truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: India Office Records.

1. Anna Julia Grant Duff (née Webster, 1838–1915), only daughter of Edward Webster, barrister, of North Lodge, Ealing, and his wife, Hannah (née Ainsworth). She married Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff on 13 April 1859, at Ealing.

2. The 28th of June. EBB died in the early hours of Saturday, 29 June 1861.

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