5742. RB to H. Cholmondeley Pennell

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 75–76.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

Monday, Apr. 23. ’66

My dear Pennell,

You see by the “Times”—what I was going to inform you of—the strange & sad death of poor Mrs Carlyle: [1] it will of course be useless to address him for the present: one hardly knows how he is to bear it, indeed.

Ever yours most truly

Robert Browning.

I thought you would get wet, and was vexed at it.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Montana.

1. An item entitled “Sudden Death of Mrs. Carlyle” appeared in The Times of 23 April 1866, p. 9.

___________________