Correspondence

6016.  RB to Alfred William Hunt

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 293–294.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

Feb. 11. ’68.

My dear Mr Hunt,

I am sure your kindness will forgive and understand when I say that I mean to get much good out of my intercourse with you, and that good scarcely ever comes to me in the shape of a dinner: I never choose that way of seeing friends when I can command a better,—and the best will be those daylight visits to you which you must suffer to be neither few nor far between. And this I say for my Sister as well as myself—who thanks you as heartily as I do, and hopes to see Mrs Hunt [1] according to the promise you convey.

Ever—despite the skewer of

a pen—yours most truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: Robert Secor, “Robert Browning and the Hunts of South Kensington,” Browning Institute Studies, 7 (1979), 117 (in part).

Manuscript: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection.

1. Margaret Hunt (née Raine, 1831–1912), who wrote novels under the pseudonym “Averil Beaumont.” She and Alfred William Hunt were married in 1861.

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