Correspondence

5577.  RB to Editor of The Athenæum

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 243–244.

193. Piccadilly London. W. [1]

April 10. 1865

Sir,

Will you oblige me by mentioning that my name occurs in a list of the promised contributors to a new Magazine advertised in your last week’s number, [2] in spite of a distinct notice on my part of my inability to contribute?

I am, sir,

Your obed’t humble Servt

Robert Browning

The Editor of the “Athenæum”

Publication: The Athenæum, 15 April 1865, p. 525.

Manuscript: Eton College Library, Michael Meredith Collection.

1. Offices of Chapman and Hall.

2. The Shilling Magazine, edited by Samuel Lucas, was advertised in The Athenæum of 8 April 1865 (no. 1954, p. 480). A list of prospective contributors included A.H. Layard, Harriet Martineau, and Thomas Henry Huxley. RB’s name was listed between George Meredith and Christina Rossetti.

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