5571. RB to Lord Houghton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 240.

19. Warwick Crescent, W.

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

March 21. ’65

My dear Houghton,

I happen to be engaged this morning—and for <…> am hardly sorry <for> it; because I do not incline to any <other> of the <family> than the grand old man who is so <…> [1]

But I am not going to lose the hope of seeing Lady Houghton very soon,—if she <…> the call.

Yours ever truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Trinity College, Cambridge.

1. As indicated in the following letter, RB refers to the late Walter Savage Landor and his family, with which he (RB) wants nothing to do.

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