Correspondence

5381.  RB to Edward Bulwer-Lytton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 57.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

May 16. ’64.

Dear Sir Edward, [1]

I shall be very happy to dine with you on the day you so kindly appoint. [2] I am glad that your opinion about the novel [3] fortifies mine: you characterize it, exactly.

Very faithfully yours ever

Robert Browning

Publication: BBIS-10, p. 218.

Manuscript: Lord Cobbold.

1. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803–73), novelist and M.P. for Hertfordshire (1852–66).

2. June 1st; see the third paragraph in letter 5384.

3. Perhaps Robert Bulwer-Lytton’s The Ring of Amasis (1863); see the first paragraph in letter 5246.

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