682.5. RB to John Kenyon

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 4.

[London]

Tuesday Mg. [ca. March 1839] [1]

My dear Mr Kenyon,

More than “care”—I shall be delighted to see you next Thursday as you propose, if but for a few minutes: beside, I am busy, in my poor way, and begin to like late hours. For once, I am glad you did not come that Sunday-morning—you had found stayers within doors, as Roderigo found satisfaction “none—none—none”! Le printems viendra cependant, [2] and

then, as now, believe me,

Yours very faithfully,

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dating is based on stationery that bears a watermark dated 1838, RB’s remark that “spring will come,” and Kenyon being in London in early 1839, while in the following year he was at Rome.

2. “However, spring will come.”

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