Correspondence

5762.  RB to Robert Cooke

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 88.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

Saturday, June 9. ’66.

My dear Mr Cooke, [1]

Thank you very much for your kind invitation: I am unluckily engaged for Wednesday, or I should have greatly enjoyed making one of your party.

Very sincerely yours

Robert Browning.

Source: Transcript in editors’ file.

1. Robert Francis Cooke (1816–91), partner in the publishing firm of John Murray. He was a first cousin of John Murray (1808–92).

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