Correspondence

6063.  RB to Octavius Moulton-Barrett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 322.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

May 26. ’68.

My dear Ocky,

I ought to have sent these long ago– Pen was anxious that you should get them—& I promised what I ought to have performed at once: you must forgive a much-worked man!

I can’t sufficiently thank you and your dear wife for all your kindness to Pen, which is, in the truest sense, kindness to me. I believe he feels as he should about it,—how much more must I!

With all love to you both

Yours ever affectionately

Robert Browning.

I left Pen at Oxford on Monday [1] —very well.

Address: Octavius Moulton Barrett Esq. / The Holt, / Bishop’s Waltham, / near Hants.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Gordon E. Moulton-Barrett.

1. RB was at Oxford from 23 to 25 May.

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