5858. Adelaide Sartoris to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 162.

9 Park Place St James

Friday 8th February– [1867] [1]

My dear Browning

Joachim has offered to come & play here on Friday the 15th—will you come & dine with me on that day at 8 oclock?

Yrs affectly

Adelaide Sartoris

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Yale University.

1. The 8th and 15th of February were Fridays in 1867. The previous year in which they fell on Friday was 1861, before RB was back in London; the next year in which they fell on Friday was 1878, the year before Mrs. Sartoris’s death.

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