SD2613. Matthew Arnold to Mary Penrose Arnold

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 354 (in part).

The Athenæum

Sunday, November 9, 1862

My dearest Mother

You must have thought I was never going to write—and that I may not fall into bad ways. …

Tonight Fanny du Quaire, Lady Burgoyne, Cumin and Robt Browning the poet dine with us. …

Publication: The Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996–2001), 2, 158–160.

Manuscript: Balliol College.

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