5943. RB to Lady Lothian

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 230.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

July 17. ’67.

Dear Lady Lothian,

Your kindness has made up for the one omission on my part which could have induced me to wish you back, for just a moment, on that day of my taking leave,—I wanted to say what a favor it would be could you tell me, by a word, how you & Lord Lothian bore the journey to Scotland: but your suffering was too apparent. I hope you are well now, and that the quiet and change of air may over balance any undue fatigue in Lord Lothian’s case.

I go at the end of the month to the strange wild little place I liked so much last year,—have taken the same old house, [1] too, and mean to be alone in it for a couple of months. May I say, you have introduced a disquieting element into the sleepy life I intended to lead there, and that I shall hardly bear staying all that while, all that half-dozen of ten days, without hearing of you both? Would it be too much to ask that, once at least in that time, you would simply say how you and Lord Lothian are? I really want no more—and you would write to me “Au Croisic, Loire Inférieure, France.”

So, with all good wishes, I am ever

Yours most truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Maison Du Bochet in Le Croisic, as identified by RB in letter 5947.

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