5615. RB to Katherine Lyell

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 266–267.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace W.

June 28. ’65.

Dear Mrs Lyell,

Once again I have been disappointed in my hope of seeing you: I felt bound to go and see an old Roman friend [1] whose last evening it was.

Very truly yours ever

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Presumably William Wetmore Story (see letter 5613, note 2).

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