6013. Christina Rossetti to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 292.

56 Euston Square, N.W.

3rd February [1868] [1]

Dear Mr Browning

We hope one or two of our friends will be with us on Thursday evening the 13th (8 o’clock), and proud and pleased we should be if you especially would accept our welcome and our cup of tea.

Pray accept this with my Mother’s compliments and believe me

Sincerely yours

Christina G. Rossetti

An answer, please.

Publication: The Letters of Christina Rossetti, ed. Antony H. Harrison (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1997–2004), 1, 305–306.

Manuscript: Princeton University.

1. The 13th of February fell on a Thursday in 1868 and 1873, the only two times it did so during Christina Rossetti’s occupancy at 56 Euston Square. By 1873, her ill health (she was diagnosed with Graves’s disease the year before) would have precluded the entertaining of guests.

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