5581. Charles Hamilton Aidé to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 249.

Forest Bank

Lyndhurst

April 23d 65–

My dear Browning,

I have desired Moxon to send you a volume of verses just published, [1] which, in memory of the old days, I know your friendship will view with indulgence. Do not think it necessary to write to me, which I know by experience is always an awkward task on the receipt of such gifts. My long knowledge of your kindness requires no assurance that you will accept this small tribute of my respect & regard, as it is offered from

Yrs

Ever most faithfully

Hamilton Aïdé. [2]

Address: Robert Browning Esqre / [Continued in unidentified hand] 19 Warwick Crescent / Harrow Road.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Virginia; and Oliver and Tina Wheeler, London (envelope).

1. Romance of the Scarlet Leaf (1865). This presentation copy sold in an unspecified lot in Browning Collections (see Reconstruction, A31).

2. Charles Hamilton Aidé (1826–1906); see letter 3369, note 2.

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