Correspondence

5192.  RB to Henry Adams

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 218–219.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace. W.

March 31. ’63.

My dear Sir, [1]

On returning from Paris, after a fortnight’s absence, I find your obliging note and invitation of the 15th Pray express to Mr and Mrs Adams the sense I entertain of their kindness, and also the regret I feel at having been unable to profit by it.

I shall do myself the honor of calling on the earliest opportunity: meanwhile believe me,

My dear Sir,

Very faithfully yours

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Gardner Museum.

1. Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), American historian, was the third son and fourth child of Charles Francis Adams (1807–86), U.S. minister to Great Britain (1861–68), and his wife, Abigail (née Brooks, 1808–89). Henry acted as private secretary to his father during the latter’s ambassadorship. He had met RB in 1860 at Rome; see SD2383 in vol. 28. See also The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Boston and New York, 1918), pp. 92–93.

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