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85605071.  Robert Barrett Browning to Altham Surtees Cook

Paris

May 7 [1856] [1]

My dearest Altham,

I’ll be your friend very willingly, and I should like very much to see you and play with you. I have wanted some new friend so very often, and now I have got one and now I’m glad too that at present, when I can’t see you or play with you, you can write letters to me and I can write letters to you. Soon I will send you a pretty poem, and perhaps I will send you a picture.

The very minute I am writing this most beautiful lilacs comes in as a present to Mama. I send my own love and my own kiss to your little sleeping brother, & Mary, and to my aunt Henrietta, and my uncle Surtees.

Goodbye, dearest Altham. I hope I will really see you in London when I get there!—not in fun, but in reality.

Penini

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: British Library.

1. This letter is enclosed in one of this date from EBB to Henrietta.

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