5310. RB to Julia Pollock

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 2.

[London]

[ca. 1864] [1]

Dear Mrs Pollock, [2]

I shall be very happy to go to you on Wednesday: for my Son,—I can hardly dispose of him—but if he is not worn out by rowing, or otherwise incapacitated by so late an hour as 9 o’clock, he will be delighted to accompany me.

Very truly yours ever

Robert Browning

Publication: None traced.

Source: Transcript in editors’ file.

1. Approximate dating suggested by the reference to Pen’s rowing, which is often mentioned in RB’s correspondence from 1862 to 1867.

2. Julia Pollock (née Creed, 1818–99), who married the barrister William Frederick Pollock (1815–88) in 1844.

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