6027. RB to Alexander Macmillan

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 300.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

March 5. ’68.

My dear Mr Macmillan,

I thought to call and say, what I find I must only write,—that I shall be very happy to have the enjoyment you offer me, [1] and that I thank you exceedingly for your great & constant kindness to

Yours ever most truly

Robert Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. RB is responding to Macmillan’s invitation to dine on 1 April. On 3 March 1868, Macmillan wrote: “I expect Huxley, Browning, Matthew Arnold, John Morley, Greenwood, and some other good fellows who are content to wear the motley for a day” (see SD2961).

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