Correspondence

5233.  RB to Anne Frances Hughes

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 252.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W

Monday, June 8. ’63.

Dear Mrs Hughes, [1]

Be sure that I will go to you on Sunday and be very happy.

All regard to Mr Hughes & yourself from

Yours faithfully ever

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Salisbury House.

1. Anne Frances Hughes (née Ford, 1826–1910), daughter of Rev. Dr. James Ford (1797–1877), prebendary of Exeter, and his wife, Jane Frances (née Nagle, 1799–1893). On 17 August 1847, Anne married Thomas Hughes (1822–96), author of Tom Brown’s School Days (Cambridge, 1857).

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