5513. RB to William Allingham

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 194–195.

19. Warwick Cresc:

Dec. 27. ’64

My dear Allingham,

First, Mister me no Misters, if you please: next,—as may be already apparent in the amenity of my style,—I am so stupidly out of sorts with a cold that I hardly like to say the truth– Here I certainly am to be found, because I can’t well go anywhere else. If you can come and lunch on Thursday or Friday, I shall be glad for my own sake: you must take care of yourself. I have to go out on Thursday Eg. unluckily.

All Christmas wishes to Jones, and thanks for his remembrance of me.

Ever yours

Robert Browning.

Address: W. Allingham Esq / at Edw. B. Jones Esq / 62 Great Russell Street / Bloomsbury, / W.C.

Publication: Letters to William Allingham, ed. H. Allingham and E. Baumer Williams (London, 1911), p. 110.

Manuscript: R.H. Taylor Collection.

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