5548. Lady William Russell to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 218.

2 Audley Sq

Mayfair—W—

Monday Even 13 feb [1865] [1]

My dear Mr Browning

I am Very Sorry to hear from my Servant that your Son has been ill!—write me a Line to say how he is & what was the matter? I have been & am still on the rack with rheumatic pains! & what they call une Courbature, [2] across the Salt [3] — — — Yours most

faithfully &

Sympathetically

Address, on integral page: Robert Browning Esq / 19 Warwick Crescent / Westbourne Terrace / —W.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Year provided by postmark.

2. “An ache.”

3. i.e., across the English Channel, in France.

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