Correspondence

6065.  RB to Richard Chenevix Trench

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 323–324.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

May 26. ’68.

My dear Lord Archbishop,

I am sorry indeed to find myself prevented accepting the honor of your invitation for the 29th– I have an engagement impossible to evade—and, I thought when I accepted it, impossible to regret.

Pray believe me most faithfully

My dear Lord Archbishop,

Yours ever

Robert Browning.

May I add that I received your letter too late last night for an earlier answer, having been at Oxford.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

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