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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