19 Warwick Crescent, W.  October 25, 1878  Dear Helen Zimmern,  (a familiarity of address extorted from me by your profession of being    grateful,    satisfied by a    mere postcard,     amp; so no)     you very well know that, having returned home since Tuesday, we shall be happy to see you whenever you incline to gratify my sister 
        and myself. It is good indeed of you to give us Wednesday morning out of your little week, and we take it affectionately   which is bigger all round than    gratefully.    Come to lunch at 1 o   clock and hear our last news of Asolo, which I have revisited in no dream, but much dreaminess. My sister is in all I say, one with  Yours ever  Robert Browning 
         
        19 Warwick Crescent, W.  October 30, 1878    Dear Helen Zimmern, my sister and myself are both of us exceedingly sorry for your illness and anxious to hear of its abatement,--but we should be far more than sorry if your kind fancies had led you to come here under such circumstances. Once for all,--an assurance which I hope you will bear in mind on many another occasion,--your coming or not coming to so simple an affair as our early lunch, will never    out us out      never, at all events, if you apprise us of it, as you have done, done hours before. At this time of year engagements are few, and, on much less a valid reason than you give, you can change a day without disconcerting us in the least. And now,--if you can feel sure that your health permits it   in the prospect 
        of the long cold journey before you,--we propose that Saturday   as the farthest day from this   shall be kept for you   on the understanding that if, on the last moment, you apprehend any sort of inconvenience from the visit, you will say so. May I add   that, if you prefer it, and will let half our establishment do duty for the whole, I will gladly go and bid you goodbye in person on Saturday or Sunday, as you please to appoint: I repeat   I have no engagements to hinder me from such a satisfaction.    Affectionately yours    Robert Browning