5130. Matthew Arnold to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 150.

2, Chester Square,

Novber 6th [1862] [1]

Dear Mr Browning

If you are in town and disengaged will you give Mrs Arnold [2] and me the pleasure of your company at dinner on Sunday (the 9th) [3] at ¼ past 7, to meet Mme du Quaire? She goes out of town on Monday.

Believe me,

Sincerely yours

Matthew Arnold.–

Address: Robert Browning Esqre / 19, Warwick Crescent, / Harrow Road / W.

Publication: The Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996–2001), 2, 158.

Manuscript: The Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds.

1. Year provided by postmark.

2. Frances Lucy (“Flu”) Arnold (née Wightman, 1825–1901) married Matthew Arnold on 10 June 1851 at Hampton Parish Church, Richmond, Surrey.

3. RB attended, as did Frances Du Quaire (see SD2614).

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