Correspondence

6021.  Matthew Arnold to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 297.

Feby 24th 1868.

My dear Browning

I should like to get you once more within my house before I leave it: [1] if you are by chance still disengaged for next Saturday, will you come and dine with us that day at ½ past 7. You will meet no one but Fanny du Quaire and Barley Streatfield [sic] and Capt. Cust, for we are still living shut up, but Mrs Arnold will be as glad as I shall if you can come to us thus quietly.

Believe me,

ever sincerely yours,

Matthew Arnold.

Publication: Arnold, 3, 235.

Manuscript: The Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds.

1. The next month, Arnold and his family moved from 2 Chester Square to Byron House, Harrow on the Hill.

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