5262. RB to George Knox Gillespie

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 280.

19, Warwick Crescent, Upper Westbourne Terrace

28 July 1863

Many thanks for the note which I found at home yesterday, and as many regrets that you should have taken a journey fruitlessly. I find this morning that the case is very little altered—the swelling being still so considerable as to affect Robert’s articulation—although in the main, he is better and probably will be well in a day or two. I shall therefore again solicit your indulgence, and beg that the lesson may be postponed till to-morrow:—if my hopes should be disappointed once more, I will write by the early post. I am sure you understand and sympathize with my regret that we should lose even a single visit from you. I am, dear Sir, [1]

Yours ever faithfully

Robert Browning.

Text: AAA Catalogue, 6 April 1915, lot 92.

1. The recipient is probably George Knox Gillespie, Pen’s tutor in classics and mathematics.

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