5714. RB to Lady Amberley

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 58.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

March 5. ’66.

Dear Lady Amberley, [1]

If by any chance you should notice that I am not among your visitors this afternoon,—I who had hoped to be so honored,—pray let me say that I shall only get rid of a vile cold by staying at home. I hope I have still an opportunity of regaining what I lose much against my will.

Believe me, Dear Lady Amberley,

Very faithfully yours

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Katherine Louisa Russell (1842–74), daughter of Edward John Stanley (1802–69), 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley, and his wife, Henrietta Maria (née Dillon-Lee, 1807–95). She married in 1864 John Russell (1842–76), Viscount Amberley, eldest son of Lord John Russell (1792–1878), 1st Earl Russell.

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