Correspondence

5721.  RB to Maria Drummond

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 61–62.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace W.

March 9. ’66.

Dear Mrs Drummond, [1]

I shall be very happy to dine with you on the day you so kindly propose.

Pray believe me,

Very faithfully yours

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Eton College Library.

1. Maria Drummond (née Kinnaird, 1810–91), the widow of Thomas Drummond (1797–1840). Her daughters, Emily Drummond and Elizabeth Kay, also became acquaintances of RB.

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