Correspondence

5675.  RB to Frances Elinor Colvile

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

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terr: W.

Dec. 19. ’65.

Dear Lady Colvile, [1]

I will go to you on Thursday with pleasure indeed. No,—I never leave Town, once fairly in it again after my Autumn holiday, till the other holiday at Easter.

I was at a house, last Wednesday, where you were particularly wished for by the hostess,—a thing which is so little of a novelty in your case, that you will wait to hear about it, for a couple of days, I am sure.

With all regards to Sir James,

Very sincerely yours ever,

Robert Browning.

Address: Lady Colvile, / 8 Rutland Gate, / Hyde Park, / S.W.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Frances Elinor Colvile (née Grant, 1838–1919); see letter 5355, note 1.

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