5173. RB to Henry Bence Jones
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 199.
19. Warwick Crescent,
Upper Westbourne Terr:
Feb: 2. ’63
My dear Sir,
Many thanks for your kind invitation which I am unfortunately prevented from accepting by a previous engagement.
I shall be more chary of giving away “Friday evenings” than hitherto. [1]
Pray believe me,
My dear Sir,
Yours faithfully & obligedly
Robert Browning–
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: The Royal Institution.
1. The Royal Institution, of which Jones was secretary, held weekly lectures on Friday evenings.
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