Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initial : [London], to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Saturday Mor'g" [1844 July 27].

BIB_ID
402729
Accession number
MA 3449.68
Creator
Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884.
Display Date
"Saturday Mor'g" [1844 July 27].
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 10.5 x 8.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Date and place of writing from postmark.
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "Miss E.B. Barrett / 50 Wimpole St / Cavendish Sqre."
With an envelope housed with this letter but simply addressed "Miss E.B. Barrett / 50 Wimpole St." The letter has no stamp and no postmark but does have the fragments of a seal.
Summary
Concerning his intention to call on her; saying "Up to this moment, my dear Miss Barrett, I have never known certainly if I sh'd (bodily) be able to call in Wimpole St - because I could not call merely - I sh'd certainly remain an hour or two, (or three or four.) All my arrangements were built for the day I named, I f therefore I do not call, it will be from impossibility. And I will write from Prussia, presently; and when I return, I shall hope to make the acquaintance of your sisters, and that they will not believe one fraction of a syllable of the rude things laid to my charge by dear Mrs. Orme and dear E.B."