5619. RB to H. Cholmondeley Pennell
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 269.
19 Warwick Crescent,
Upper Westbourne Terrace, W
July 1. ’65.
My dear Mr Pennell, [1]
I shall be very happy to dine with you on Tuesday. As to the “honour”—“I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student!” [2]
Very truly yours
Robert Browning.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. Henry Cholmondeley Pennell (1836–1915), civil servant (Inspector of Sea Fisheries 1866–75), writer on angling, and poet.
2. Cf. Hamlet, I, 2, 177.
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