5992. RB to Robert Scott

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 276.

19. Warwick Crescent

Upper Westbourne Terrace,

Dec: 22 [sic, for 23]. ’67 [1]

My dear Dr Scott,

I have again to beg your indulgence. My Son is reported to me as “thought quite ready for examination at the beginning of the Easter Term.” Will you kindly permit this to take place?– And, in the event of a successful issue, will you allow him to come into residence immediately afterwards?

Pray believe me, Dear Dr Scott,

Yours most truly ever

Robert Browning.

Docket, in recipient’s hand: answd.; If I can.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Pusey House.

1. RB quotes from letter 5991, the envelope of which bears a London receiving stamp of 23 December 1867.

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