Correspondence

5499.  RB to Christina Georgina Jane Reeve

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 185.

19. Warwick Crescent, W.

4 December 1864

Offered for sale by C.H. Last, book seller, Bromley, England, Catalogue 184, December 1932, item 292. 1 p., 8vo. RB writes of Miss Power [1] and Miss Dempster, [2] “who’s name reminds me of the good old days of Rome, just as your husband’s [3] would if I wanted reminding of the pleasant old time twenty-five years ago.”

1. Marguerite Agnes Power (1821–67); see letter 3355, note 3.

2. Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster (1835–1913); see letter 4957, note 11.

3. Henry Reeve, who married, as his second wife, Christina Georgina Jane (née Gollop, 1821–1906), in 1851.

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