5420. RB to Reuben Browning

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 86.

19. W. C

Thursday [?14] [July 1864] [1]

Dear Reuben,

Thank you extremely. I leave at the beginning of next month, but hope to see you before then, spite of too many engagements.

Ever yours affy

R. Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. The year is based on the stationery; the month is suggested by RB’s implication of an impending holiday (in 1864 RB and Pen left for France on 3 August); and the conjectured day by reference to the Thursday, July 1864 calendar dates of 7, 14, 21, and 28.

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