Correspondence

5368.  RB to Theodore A. Lemaître

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 45.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

4 Mai, ’64.

Cher Monsieur Lemaître,

Robert vient d’arriver, sain et sauf, Dieu merci. Nous serons charmés, tous les deux, de vous voir demain à l’ordinaire—c’est à dire, à 7 heures du soir—si vos engagements le permettent, bien entendu.

Agréez, cher Monsieur Lemaître,

l’assurance de toute ma considération,

Robert Browning

Address: Monsieur Lemaître, / 9. King Street, King’s Road, / Chelsea. / S.W.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library, Gordon N. Ray Bequest.

Translation:

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

4 May, ’64.

Dear Monsieur Lemaître,

Robert has just arrived, safe and sound, thank God. We shall be delighted, both of us, to see you tomorrow as usual—that is to say, at 7 o’clock in the evening—if your engagements permit it, of course.

Accept, dear Monsieur Lemaître,

the assurance of all my esteem,

Robert Browning

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