922. EBB to Eleanor Page Bordman

An amended version of the text that appeared in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 5, 257.

[London]

[early March 1842] [1]

Dearest Nelly,—you will certainly think that I dont want to see you at all—& yet how untrue!! But I am forced to provide a fourth paper & am pressed for time, & you wd find me in an agony if you came this week. Put it off to wednesday week—will you, dear? & believe me as ever

& as truly your

most affecte

EBB.

Address, on integral page: Miss Bordman.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dated by the preparation of EBB’s fourth paper on the Greek Christian Poets, published in The Athenæum, 19 March 1842, pp. 249–252.

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