5546. RB to Moncure Daniel Conway

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 216.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace W.

Feb: 10. ’65.

Dear Mr Conway,

Don’t you think me a pretty specimen of impracticability? I was fully bent on giving myself an evening at your house, when my son is found in abrupt possession of the measles: I go nowhere in consequence, except perhaps to my Club [1] —where the members would only be flattered by catching any complaint so juvenile. But I don’t mean to infect you, depend on it!

Ever affectionately yours

Robert Browning.

Address: Rev. M. D. Conway, / 28 Notting Hill Square, / Bayswater. / W.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Eton College Library, Michael Meredith Collection (envelope); and University of Montana.

1. The Athenæum Club.

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