SD2963. Frances Elinor Colvile to Jane Maria Strachey

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 381 (in part).

8. Rutland Gate

March 13th 1868

Dearest Janie,

This is your birthday & I thought I would write you a very long letter in honour thereof, but it does not seem likely to be. …

I have asked him [i.e., Joachim] to dinner & the amiable being comes on the first April, the last night of his stay in England. I have secured the Seniors & the de Mussys, & Mama shall ask the Sartorises & Mr Browning I think & another man. I don’t want him to play I want him to talk. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: India Office Records.

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