Correspondence

5175.  Matthew Arnold to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 200.

2, Chester Square.

Febr 4th, 1863.

My dear Mr Browning

Will you give us the pleasure of your company at dinner on Friday week, the 13th, at ¼ past 7. This time you will really meet Froude, [1] and, I hope, Thompson, [2] the Cambridge Professor of Greek, also.

Ever sincerely yours

Matthew Arnold–

Publication: The Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996–2001), 2, 188.

Manuscript: Library of Congress.

1. James Anthony Froude (1818–94).

2. William Hepworth Thompson (1810–86), Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1853 to 1866 and Master of Trinity College from 1866 until his death.

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