5653. RB to William Allingham

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 17.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terr: W.

Saturday, [28 October 1865] [1]

My dear Allingham,

I am always quite as glad to see you as you can be to give me such a pleasure. I am in somewhat of a strait with two engagements on this unlucky to-morrow: if you can be here between 4 and 5,—it will be somewhat though not as much of you as I should like.

I am glad to be reminded where the Jones’s [2] live, because I shall get to see them soon, I hope.

Yours heartily

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: R.H. Taylor Collection.

1. Dated by RB’s reference to letter 5652.

2. Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) and his wife, Georgiana (née Macdonald, 1840–1920).

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