5182. RB to Jane Browning Smith

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 206–207.

[London]

[ca. March 1863] [1]

Dear Miss Smith,

Can you kindly receive Robert this morning at eleven instead of the earlier hour? Mr Noë’s [2] visit must be our excuse. No answer will be “Yes”.

Faithfully yours

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Approximate dating based on the stationery, which bears a watermark of 1862, and on RB’s reference to Leopold Noa, to whom he gave a letter of recommendation on 15 March 1863 (see letter 5188).

2. Leopold Noa (1826–97), Pen’s German tutor.

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