SD2945. Frances Elinor Colvile to Jane Maria Strachey

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 378 (in part).

8. Rutland Gate

Decr 4th [1867] [1]

My dearest Janie,

We have just returned from Mr Tyndall’s lecture …

I had a horrid disapt yesterday; after closing my letter to you I asked whether anybody had called– Yes Mr Browning– I stamped & said Drat several times, & gave a general order that he was always to be admitted. Was it not provoking. I asked him to dine on the 14th but he is engaged. We have the Spottiswoodes, Brookfields, Walronds & have to find some other people. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: India Office Records.

1. Year conjectured by placement of letter in collection.

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