5608. RB to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 263.
19 Warwick Crescent,
Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.
June 16. ’65.
Dear Fanny,
I have been thus long in answering your note from real bewilderment at every attempt to get the better of your difficulties and mine, and manage that we should meet. I was at Oxford when your note came—and, as there is no date to it, could not quite be sure when “to-morrow” &c really would fall. By a kind invitation from the Baron [1] for this evening—which I can’t accept however—I see you are still in Town: all I can say is—I am always most happy to see you—hard as it seems to contrive so simple a thing. I go out a great deal, and am profoundly tired of it all. If you were inclined to come here any morning before 2. or Evening after 6:—(& would if possible let me know)—I should enjoy a talk with you greatly—how could I fail to do so?
I always hear of you from Sarianna—and always in the same sense—with the same delight in your company and feeling for your kindness. She is returned to Paris.
Ever affectionately yours
Robert Browning.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Eton College Library, Michael Meredith Collection.
1. Baron Carlo Marochetti (1805–67), Italian-born French sculptor; see letter 3216, note 20, where his first name is mistakenly given as “Carolo.”
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