5717. RB to Julia Pollock

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 60.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W

March 5. ’66.

Dear Mrs Pollock, [1]

Now that I can go to you, in one sense, I can’t in another: I have somehow so vile a cold that there is no remedy but to keep house to-day at least. I hope you understand how sorry I am, and how truly

Yours ever

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Julia Pollock (née Creed, 1818–99); see letter 5310, note 1.

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