5181. RB to Euphemia Millais

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

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace.

Friday. [27 February 1863] [1]

Dear Mrs Millais,

You are by far too good, and I am unfortunate in this matter, as you shall hear. I found it impossible to travel this week, but still had no right to try & regain what I had lost. I accepted another invitation for to-day’s dinner—meaning—as I still hope—to go to you at end of it. But the check to the hope is in a headache I feel, which may be too much for me when all is done & said—& eaten. If I can get to Cromwell Place [2] in good time and tolerable comfort, I will do so gladly—if not, you will lose nothing & I have gained a great display of kindness.

With all regard to Mr Millais,

Yours very faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Sir Geoffroy Millais.

1. Dated by reference to letter 5178, in which RB mentions the same topics.

2. John Everett Millais is listed in RB’s address book of this period (AB-5) at 7 Cromwell Place, South Kensington.

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