5510. Bryan Waller Procter to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 192.

32 Weymouth Street

Portland Place

24 Decr [?1864] [1]

My dear Browning

We have sought—and, alas, there is no Latch key. My wife—who began the address on the envelope—is obliged to run off & has left the Communication to me.

All Xmas good wishes to you & your little boy—from

Your “faithful for ever.”

B W P.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Chicago.

1. The stationery is edged in black, suggesting this letter was written in 1864 after the death of his daughter, Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–64), in February.

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