Correspondence

5328.  RB to Francis Turner Palgrave

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 15.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace W.

Monday. [8 February 1864] [1]

Dear Palgrave,

I accept with great pleasure for next Friday, if you allow me—and will use the liberty you so kindly prescribe, as to “undress.”

Ever yours faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Texas.

1. Dating based on the stationery, which bears an 1863 watermark, and on RB’s presence at Palgrave’s on Friday, 12 February 1864, at which time the host and Tennyson witnessed RB’s will (see SD2677 and letter 5333, note 2).

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