5609. RB to Moncure Daniel Conway

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 264.

The Athenæum

Saturday Mg. [17 June 1865] [1]

Dear Mr Conway,

I wish I could go to you—but to-morrow I am engaged unfortunately.

Please tell Mr Flower [2] how well I remember him, and how exceedingly I should have liked to see him again.

Ever yours most truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dated by RB’s reference to “Mr. Flower” (see letter 5610).

2. Edward Fordham Flower (1805–83), founded the highly successful E.F. Flower and Sons brewery in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1831. “He was four times chosen mayor of the borough of Stratford, the last occasion being in 1864, when he organized the tercentenary celebrations of Shakespeare’s birth” (ODNB). Flower is listed in RB’s address book of this period (AB-5) at “The Hill, Stratford on Avon.”

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