5247. Tom Taylor to RB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 264.
Local Government Act Office,
8, Richmond Terrace,
Whitehall, S.W.
July 4 [1863] [1]
My dear Browning, Ruskin is coming to dine with us on Wednesday week i.e. Wed—the 15th Will you come? We shall dine at 7! Come by the Kensington railway to Clapham Junction Station. Within five minutes after Clapham Junction Station is Lavender Sweep, a private road, within which is my house. [2] You turn in at the first Lodge on the right, up the Wandsworth road– They will give you a general guidance at the station. The Wandsworth road runs thus. Illus.
Hoping you can come to us
I am, Ever yours
Tom Taylor
[3]R Browning
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Library of Congress.
1. Year provided by RB’s reply in letter 5248.
2. The house in Wandsworth he and his wife had built a few years before (see letter 4593, note 10). Taylor was writing from the office where he served as secretary of the Board of Health, an appointment he received in 1854.
3. Tom Taylor (1817–80); see letter 3461, note 3.
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