5702. Emily Tennyson to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 49.

Upper Gore Lodge

Kensington Gore W.

Feby 13th 1866

My dear Mr Browning

Please come to us on Thursday evening the 15th The wedding breakfast went off well. [1]

Yours affectionately

Emily Tennyson

Address: Robert Browning Esqre / 19 Warwick Crescent / Upper Westbourne Terrace / W.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Yale University.

1. Following the marriage on 13 February of Alfred Tennyson’s first cousin Ellen Elizabeth Tennyson d’Eyncourt (1817–1900), youngest daughter of Charles Tennyson d’Eyncourt (né Tennyson, 1784–1861) and his wife, Frances Mary (née Hutton, 1787–1878), to Henry Mill Bunbury (1809–86), of Marlston, Berkshire. According to The Times of 14 February 1866 (p. 1), the wedding took place at St. George’s Church, Hanover Square.

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