5635. RB to Lady Houghton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 3.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

[10 October] ’65 [1]

Dear Lady Houghton, [2]

I received your letter with its kind invitation on my return from Paris last night—my excuse for the delay in thanking you for it. I shall be very happy to dine with you on Thursday next.

With kind regards to Lord Houghton

Pray believe me

Ever yours sincerely

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Trinity College, Cambridge.

1. Date partially obscured by water damage. RB returned from Paris on 9 October 1865.

2. Annabella Hungerford Milnes (née Crewe, 1814–74); see vol. 31, p. 285.

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