Henry Crabb Robinson, 30 Russell Square, to Angela Burdett-Cootts, Holly Lodge, Highgate, 28 June 1855.

My dear Madam

       I never received an invitation at once so mortifying and so flattering as that with which you have just honoured me

       I am bound to attend a business-meeting in Suffolk on Saturday, which by act of parliament must be held on that day. And I shall not return, I expect, to London until after the second Evening when your being at home has been so obligingly announced to me –

       I shall take the liberty of calling at the Lodge on my return, if I should hear in Stratton Street that you are still there –

                         I am your obliged

                                    &c &c &c

                                                 H. C. Robinson

Miss Cootts

&c &c &c

Text: Add. MS. 85291, fol. 3, British Library.