Correspondence

5354.  RB to Georgiana Mary Byrne

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 33.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace W.

Apr 17. ’64.

Dear Miss Byrne, [1]

I happen to be engaged on Tuesday Evening: thank you heartily for your goodness, however. You must not send me such good things,—I shall remember your kindness, and be grateful all the same.

Ever yours faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Georgiana Mary Byrne (1798–1864), of Dublin and London. She is listed in RB’s address book of this period (AB-5) at “15 St. George’s Place [now Knightsbridge], Hyde Park Corner.”

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