2431. EBB to Anna Brownell Jameson

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 13, 77.

[London]

Tuesday morning. [23 June 1846] [1]

I obey your commands, my dear Mrs Jameson, & tell you that all your goodness yesterday & the pleasure it brought with it, did not overcome me—for I am very well today, & the only harm was the not sleeping—the dreams & visions coming without the sleep. As for yesterday, you must have thought me quite stupified,—which was just the fact—so giddy I was with those great sights. How am I to thank you? Always I shall remember that you were the angel of this apocalypse to me,—while more willingly & gladly I can be grateful to you, than to most in the world.

Did I leave my salt bottle in the carriage? Which, I suppose, was for reputation’s sake: being so careless. If you have it, I will ask you to send it back to me by the bearer– If not, send a ‘no’– Do not write it, pray–

Your affectionate

EBB—

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

1. Dated by EBB’s reference to her outing with Mrs. Jameson, which she described to RB in the preceding letter.

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