Correspondence

5228.  RB to James Emerson Tennent & Laetitia Emerson Tennent

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 249.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace. W.

June 2. ’63.

Mr Browning presents his compliments to Sir James & Lady Emerson Tennent, [1] and begs to thank them for their kind invitation for the 19th June, which he accepts with great pleasure.

Address: Sir James Emerson Tennent / &c &c &c / 66 Warwick Square, / S.W. [2]

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. James Emerson Tennent (1804–69)—see letter 2748, note 23—was born in Belfast as James Emerson. When he married Laetitia Tennent (1806-83) in 1831, he assumed by royal license the additional name of Tennent and thereby “succeeded to estates in counties Sligo and Fermanagh” (ODNB).

2. The source for the recipients’ address is a transcript in editors’ file.

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