5758. Lord Houghton to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 86.

16. U. Brook St.

the 5th [June 1866] [1]

My dear Browning.

I shall be glad if you will excuse a short invitation & dine with us next Sunday the 10th at 7.45[.]

I am,

yr very ty

Houghton

Docket, at top of letter, in RB’s hand: Breakfast, Wednesday, 10.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Library of Congress.

1. Month and year based on RB’s reply in the following letter, and on this letter’s docket. Evidently he received a subsequent invitation from Houghton for breakfast on Wednesday, the 13th, which RB was forced to cancel; see letter 5766.

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