Correspondence

5768.  RB to William Wetmore Story & Emelyn Story

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 90.

19 Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

June 12. ’66.

My dear Friends,

I am called to Paris by telegram in consequence of the serious illness of my Father: I much fear the result.

I enclose two tickets for Halle’s concert next Friday: [1] and, should I be unable to return, Pen will send three tickets for Ella’s on the following Tuesday. [2]

Ever affy yours

R Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

1. On June 15th at 3 o’clock, St. James’s Hall, where Charles Hallé would play “Beethoven’s Moonlight and Pastoral sonatas” (The Times, 14 June 1866, p. 1).

2. On June 19th at 3:30, St. James’s Hall, where chamber works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Schumann would be performed under the direction of John Ella, with piano solos by Austrian pianist Alfred Jaëll (1832–82). See The Daily News of 18 June 1866, p. 1.

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