Correspondence

5784.  RB to Lady Hobart

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 106.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace. W.

June 27. ’66.

Dear Lady Hobart, [1]

I have returned, since a few days, from Paris, whither I was called by the illness of my poor Father. I don’t go out, at present,—but thank you much for remembering me.

Very truly yours ever

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Mary Catherine Hobart (née Carr, afterwards Coates, 1832–1914), daughter of Thomas Carr, Bishop of Bombay, married in 1853 Vere Henry Hobart (1818–75), styled Lord Hobart, eldest son of Augustus Henry Hobart (afterwards Hobart-Hampden, 1789–1885), 6th Earl of Buckinghamshire.

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