SD2875. Matthew Arnold to Mary Penrose Arnold
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 357 (in part).
[London]
February 22, 1867
My dearest Mother
This week I will not wait till the very last moment to write. … On Wednesday we had a box sent us at Astley’s and as I was engaged to dine with William Spring Rice, Flu took the boys. I met Sir Francis Doyle and Browning at dinner, and after dinner went with Doyle to the Procters—(Barry Cornwall). …
Publication: The Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996–2001), 3, 116–117.
Manuscript: Balliol College.
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