Correspondence

2199.  RB to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 12, 46.

[London]

Saturday Mg [Postmark: 7 February 1846]

Dearest, to my sorrow I must, I fear, give up the delight of seeing you this morning– I went out unwell yesterday, and a long noisy dinner with speech-making, and a long tiresome walk at the end of it—these have given me such a bewildering headache that I really see some reason in what they say here about keeping the house. Will you forgive me—and let me forget it all on Monday? On Monday—unless I am told otherwise by the early post– And God bless you ever–

Your own RB

Address: Miss Barrett, / 50 Wimpole St

Postmark: 3AN FE7 1846 D.

Docket, in EBB’s hand: 111.

Publication: RB-EBB, pp. 440–441.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

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