5433. Thomas Gilks to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 101–102.

[London]

Aug 1 / 64

Dear Sir

With best thanks I beg to enclose receipt for yr subscription [1] ——

Will you kindly accede to the enclosed request—it ought to have been sent before: but I mislaid your address– [2]

We are about reprinting, [3] and would like to publish yr name in connection with the matter–

I remain D[r] Sir

Ys faithfully

Thomas Gilks

Hon. Sec

Address: Robert Browning Esq / 19 Warwick Crescent / Upper Westbourne Terrace / W.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. The following receipt was enclosed: “In Memoriam / W.J. Fox / Aug 1 1864 / Received of Robert Browning Esqre. the sum of Three pounds three shillings as subscription to the above fund / Thomas Gilks / Hon Secy / £3.3.”

2. Gilks also enclosed his request of 19 July 1864 (see letter 5421).

3. With this letter is another copy (in part) of the printed list of committee members and subscribers enclosed in letter 5417, to which names of new committee members have been added in ink.

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