5903. RB to Charles Hallé

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 200–201.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace W.

May 14. ’67.

My dear Hallé,

All thanks for your invitation which I shall profit by if I possibly can.

I want to explain to you why in all probability I shall be away from your music for once: it is foolish, I know. My Son goes to College at Michaelmas and has to work so hard in order to matriculate at Balliol, where he wants to go, that he cannot spare even one morning a week—and I have got so used to have him with me that I can’t bear sitting alone. Next year, if all goes well with us both, I shall assuredly do the nearly one thing I thoroughly enjoy now.

Ever yours truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: Life and Letters of Sir Charles Hallé, ed. C.E. & Marie Hallé (London, 1896), p. 300.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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