Correspondence

703.5.  RB to Catherine Bromley

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 4.

[London]

[mid-July 1839] [1]

May you be very happy, dear Katie. If only he is worthy of you! [2]

Text: Merry Wives of Battersea, by A.M.W. Sterling (London, 1956), p. 125.

1. Written soon after the recipient’s marriage.

2. On 6 July 1839, at Hackney, George Edward Hering, of Charles Street, Berners Street, to Catherine, eldest daughter of William Bromley, of Stamford Grove, Upper Clapton (Times, 8 July 1839).

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