5840. RB to Charlotte Walrond

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 149.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

Saturday Mg [1867] [1]

Dear Mrs Walrond, [2]

I shall be very happy to dine with you on the 23d Pray excuse a little delay in saying this, caused by some uncertainty about an engagement for that day.

Yours very sincerely

Robert Browning

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Year based on stationery.

2. Charlotte Elliot Walrond (née Grenfell, 1840–1872), daughter of Riversdale William Grenfell (1807–71) and his wife, Charlotte Adelaide (née Elliot, 1813–40). In 1858 she married Theodore Walrond (1824–87), civil service commissioner.

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