5683. RB to Alexander Melville Bell

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 36.

19 Warwick Crescent

Upper Westbourne Terr: W.

Sunday Eg. [ca. January 1866] [1]

Dear Mr Bell,

I hope you will not be inconvenienced by the absence of my son to-morrow: he is unfortunately obliged to keep an appointment at the hour he usually gives to you. He will call on you, if you please, next Monday—that is, to-morrow week.

Very faithfully yours

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Library of Congress.

1. Approximate dating based on the period of Bell’s giving elocution lessons to Pen, October 1865 to March 1866.

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