5178. RB to Euphemia Millais

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 204.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace

Feb: 19. ’63.

Dear Mrs Millais, [1]

Thank you much for your kind invitation—which I am unable to accept, being obliged to go to Paris for a few days next Thursday. It is possible I may be detained here till the week’s end: in that case, I will gladly visit you after dinner. Pray give my best regards to Mr Millais

& believe me

Yours very faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Sir Geoffroy Millais.

1. Euphemia (“Effie”) Chalmers Millais (née Gray, formerly Ruskin, 1828–97); see vol. 23, p. 233.

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