5595. Helena Faucit Martin to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 255–256.

31 Onslow Square. S.W.

May 15th [1865] [1]

Dear Mr Browning,

Will you dine with us on Wednesday the 31 instant at a quarter before eight, & meet our friends the Dean [2] & Lady Augusta Stanley?

Always yours most truly

Helena F. Martin.

Publication: BBIS-2, p. 19.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Year provided by reference to letters 5596 and 5597.

2. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815–81), son of Edward Stanley (1779–1849), Bishop of Norwich, and his wife, Catherine (née Leycester, 1792–1862), was made Dean of Westminster in January 1864. He married in December 1863 Lady Augusta Bruce (1822–76); see letter 3038, note 11.

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