Correspondence

5899.  RB to James Spedding

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 198–199.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westb. Terr: W.

May 3. ’67.

My dear Spedding, [1]

I shall be happy to do as you so kindly propose. I am very glad we are neighbours. [2]

Yours ever truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. James Spedding (1808–81); see letter 5331, note 2.

2. Spedding, a bachelor, occupied rooms in Lincoln’s Inn Fields before moving in 1867 to 80 Westbourne Terrace, the home of his widowed sister-in-law, Jane Spedding (née Headlam, 1807–84).

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