Correspondence

5736.  RB to James Morse Carmichael

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 71.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westb. Terr. W

March 30. ’66.

My dear James, [1]

Perhaps you may like the use of the inclosed Tickets for Ella’s First Matinée, [2] —which I don’t want—as I go to Paris to-morrow for a Fortnight.

Have the goodness to return them when done with.

Yours very truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. James Morse Carmichael (1844–1902), later 3rd Baronet Carmichael, only son of James Robert Carmichael (né Carmichael-Smyth, 1817–83), 2nd Baronet Carmichael, and his wife, Louisa Charlotte (née Butler, 1817–99), EBB’s cousin.

2. On 10 April in St. James’s Hall at 3:30 p.m. (see The Observer, 1 April 1866, p. 1).

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