BIB_ID
402753
Accession number
MA 2148.57
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1860 November 17].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 14.8 x 9 cm + envelope
Notes
Year and month of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence. There is no current consensus on whether the letter was written on the 17th or on the 11th; it is postmarked "Firenze November 19", which suggests the 17th, but a letter by Robert written from Rome on December 3 describes them as leaving Florence on the 10th or 11th of November. See the published edition of the correspondence and the checklist, cited below, for additional information.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "Angleterre/ George G Moulton Barrett Esqre/ Stoke Court/ Taunton/ Somersetshire."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "Angleterre/ George G Moulton Barrett Esqre/ Stoke Court/ Taunton/ Somersetshire."
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Telling George that they are leaving for Rome tomorrow, for EBB's health; confirming that she has received George's "two dreadful letters" about Henrietta's illness: "There is a ray in your postscript--which will do to try to travel on--And you say she is not weaker than when you wrote before--But I am very frightened--& it is perhaps better to wait for news in a carriage than sitting here in this chair--which makes one mad almost"; asking him to write to them in Rome immediately; adding that "Roberts eyes were not dry over your letter--feeling for me & with me."
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