Correspondence

5193.  RB to Henry Bence Jones

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

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace. W.

March 31. ’63

My dear Sir,

On returning from Paris, after a fortnight’s absence, I find your kind and obliging invitation. How glad I should have been to accept it, you may easily imagine.

Pray express my best thanks to Lady Mellicent, [1] on whom I hope to be allowed the honor of calling in a day or two,—and believe me,

Yours faithfully ever

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Lady Millicent Bence Jones (née Acheson, 1810–87), daughter of Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (1776–1849) and his wife, Mary (née Sparrow, 1777–1841). Lady Millicent and Henry Bence-Jones were married on 28 May 1842.

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