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SD2614.  Matthew Arnold to Mary Penrose Arnold

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

The Athenæum

[November 13, 1862]

My dearest Mother

That I may be sure of fulfilling my promise I begin now … On Sunday we had Fanny du Quaire and Robert Browning to dine with us: Lady Burgoyne and Cumin were to have been of the party too, but they both failed us from illness—however it was very pleasant—Browning is a quite remarkably agreeable converser. …

Publication: The Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996–2001), 2, 160–162.

Manuscript: Balliol College.

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