5585. RB to Unidentified Correspondent

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 251.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

April 29. ’65.

Dear Sir, [1]

I found your obliging letter on my return from Paris last night—my excuse for the delay in answering it.

You are quite welcome to make use of the poem you mention, in the way you desire.

Yours very faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. The recipient of this letter may have been Alfred H. Pease, who published a musical setting of EBB’s “A Year’s Spinning” in 1865.

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