6068. RB to Theodore A. Lemaître

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 327.

19. Warwick Crescent,

Upper Westbourne Terrace, W.

May 30. ’68.

Dear M. Lemaitre,

Here are two more volumes of the edition [1] of which I beg your kind acceptance.

Ever most truly yours

Robert Browning

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Doubtless volumes three and four of RB’s Poetical Works (6 vols., 1868). Volume four, containing A Blot in the ’Scutcheon, Colombe’s Birthday, and Dramatic Romances, was issued on 30 May 1868 (see The Athenæum of that date, no. 2118, p. 776). Volume three, containing King Victor and King Charles, Dramatic Lyrics, and The Return of the Druses, was issued on 29 April 1868 (see The Athenæum of 25 April 1868, no. 2113, p. 578).

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