Correspondence

781.  RB to Rachel Talfourd

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 308.

Camberwell

18 December 1840

Offered for sale in Sotheby’s Catalogue, 27 July 1905, lot 1072. 1 p., 8vo. RB writes: “I have I am sure many more regrets than may be put into a note that your kind invitation finds me engaged for next Sunday past all hope of release. My Xmas week opens but ominously. I hope, however, to call on you one of these mornings and to console myself.”

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