5544. RB to Mary Ford

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 215.

The Athenæum

Feb. 9. ’65.

Dear Mrs Ford,

I find my boy has got the measles this morning, and I won’t bring you that plague, if I can help it. [1]

There is no use in saying how sorry I am. When all fears of infecting you vanish, I shall venture to call.

Yours very faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: George Clive.

1. RB had accepted an invitation to dine on 11 February (see letter 5534).

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