Correspondence

5913.  Benjamin Jowett to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 210.

[Oxford]

June 18 1867

I am coming this evening at 10–30 to speak to you about a matter of importance. [1]

Address: Robt Browning Esqre / 19 Warwick Crescent / Harrow Rd Ldn.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Worcester College.

1. This message, in a telegraph clerk’s hand, was sent as a telegram. The “matter of importance” concerned the offer of an M.A. degree from Oxford (see letter 5915).

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