786. RB to Anna Dorothea Montagu [1]
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 5, 3.
[London]
Wednesday Eveg [ca. 1841] [2]
My dear Madam,
Pray accept my best thanks for your very kind note, and believe me weather-proof after a visit to you. I shall be most happy to make one of your party next Friday, and to esteem myself,
My dear Madam,
Yours ever faithfully,
Robt Browning.
Mrs Basil Montagu.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: University of Texas.
1. Mrs. Montagu (née Benson) came, as a young widow, to take charge of the motherless children of Basil Montagu, K.C. (1770-1851), legal author and philanthropist, the illegitimate son of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-92); in time she became his third wife. Her daughter Anne, by her first husband, Thomas Skepper, was the wife of Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall).
2. Dated approximately by the handwriting and form of signature.
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