5093. RB to Bessie Rayner Parkes
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 102.
19. Warwick Crescent,
Harrow Road.
June 24. [1862] [1]
Dear Miss Parkes, [2]
I wish I could have the pleasure you so kindly propose to me, but am sure I cannot—being doubly engaged on Friday Evening–
Ever yours faithfully
Robert Browning.
Address: Miss Parkes, / 17. Wimpole Street. / W.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Girton College.
1. Year provided by postmark.
2. Elizabeth (“Bessie”) Rayner Parkes (afterwards Belloc, 1829–1925); see letter 3096, note 2.
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