5650. RB to Alexander Melville Bell

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 15.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terr: W

Monday Mg [23 October 1865] [1]

Dear Sir,

I am very sorry to be again forced to beg your indulgence for my son: he is much better indeed, but still hardly well enough to leave the house, especially at the evening. I have no doubt that by next Wednesday, if you allow it, he will [be] quite able to go to you—a thing he is just as anxious about as myself.

I am, Dear Sir,

Yours very faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Library of Congress.

1. Dating based on RB’s reference to Pen’s illness (see letter 5646).

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