2456. EBB to Anna Brownell Jameson

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 13, 110.

[London]

Friday morning. [3 July 1846] [1]

I have put off to the last writing to you my dear Mrs Jameson to say that I must disappoint myself & refrain from going to you today, but I am not well this morning & am forced to be satisfied with the sofa & silence. Otherwise I am ready to sacrifice my reputation as a dutiful niece—so I have not even the consolations of virtue.

And you really go on monday! And not soon to come back? But you did not say that.

Miss Mitford was with me yesterday all day & desired that I should name her to you.

And may I send my love to the visitor [2] you brought me the day before? remaining your affectionate

EBB.

Publication: Gerardine Macpherson, Memoirs of The Life of Anna Jameson (1878), pp. 229–230 (in part).

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. This letter was written the same day as the following letter, in which she told RB that she could not meet him at Mrs. Jameson’s that day.

2. Presumably Mrs. Jameson’s niece (see letter 2388, note 6).

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