5132. Richard Monckton Milnes to RB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 151–152.
16 U B[roo]k St.
Novr 17 [1862] [1]
My dear Browning.
I have been in town for a few days & thought we might have met at the Athenæum. Not having done so I write to say it shall give Mrs Milnes & myself much pleasure if you would pay us a visit in Yorkshire towards the end of the month. You would meet Lord Granville [2] & some pleasant people on Saturday the 29th & it would be good of you to stay to the end of the following week. My post-address is Fryston Hall—Ferrybridge—Yorkshire—the station “Knottingley”—on the Great Northern—about 4 hours journey. I go to-day to G. Tomline Esqr [3] Orwell Park—Ipswich—where please write. We (little girls especially) [4] hope you may bring your boy—but it is right to tell you they have some relics of whooping-cough, which however the Doctors say is entirely uninfectious. I am
yrs very ty
Richd M. Milnes.
Address: Robt Browning Esq / 19. Warwick Crescent / Harrow Road.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Rutgers–The State University.
1. Year provided by postmark.
2. Granville George Leveson–Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (1815–91).
3. George Tomline (1813–89), politician, the son of William Edward Tomline (1787–1836). He succeeded to his father’s estates, one of which was Orwell Park, Suffolk, 9 miles S.E. of Ipswich.
4. Amicia Henrietta Milnes (1852–1902) and Florence Ellen Hungerford Milnes (1855–1923).
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