BIB_ID
402580
Accession number
MA 2148.35
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1845 September 3].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 13.2 x 10.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Place and date of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "À Monsieur / Monsieur Barrett."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
With fragments of a seal.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "À Monsieur / Monsieur Barrett."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
With fragments of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Thanking George for his advice about a planned winter trip to Italy; expressing fears that her father will disapprove of the idea; recounting a visit from her doctor, Dr. William Chambers, his diagnoses of her health, and his recommendations in favor of the trip: "and he not merely advised but enjoined the trial of a warm climate.. naming Pisa"; conveying Dr. Chamber's opinions about her diet; writing of her qualms about the trip: "Well for Dr. Chambers to say, but impossible for me to do--for I have barely heart & courage enough to get away by October in one 'grand' swoop of heroism!"; asking George for his impressions of Paris; sending family news; telling him of her other preparations for the trip (having a new dress made, writing to the steamship company); mentioning that she has had a proposal from her American publishers to publish a volume of her prose, but she feels that she doesn't have the time at the moment to work on such a project; adding "Ah--I write as if my heart were at ease--& it is'nt--".
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