5803. RB to Antonin Roche

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 125.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace W

Oct. 13. ’66.

My dear Sir, [1]

You are most welcome to take any piece or pieces that may suit your purpose from my works, [2] or the others in which I have a right. I have only just returned to Town—hence the delay in replying to your note,—which pray excuse.

I am, my dear Sir,

Very faithfully yours

Robert Browning.

Address: A. Roche Esq. / Cadogan Gardens. / S.W.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: P.J. Rivers.

1. Antonin Roche (1810–99), French-born writer and teacher, director of the Educational Institute for Ladies, London.

2. For inclusion in English Prose and Poetry, Select Pieces from the Best Authors (1867), published by Trübner & Co. in mid-January, which included RB’s “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” (Dramatic Lyrics, 1842) on pp. 78–84.

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