Correspondence

46:293.1.  EBB to Anna Brownell Jameson

This late entry would have appeared in The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 13.

[London]

12 oclock. Saturday– [4 July 1846] [1]

It is in vain. The pleasure seems all the greater that I am forced to lose it. The provoking part is that I am not ill .. nor unwell, to signify—only if I were to go to you I feel it would be at the risk of amusing you by a grand scene of faintness, which is as well to avoid on all accounts.

Here is a poem which appeared in the Daily News, though perhaps, dear Mrs Jameson, you may have seen it as little as I did. Miss Mitford copied it for me & sent it this morning, & I copy from her copy—meaning to be more legible. I meant too to take it to you when I should go. It is worthy of Orion I think, for beauty, & has affected me much.

In haste your affectionate EBB.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

1. Date is provided by EBB’s reference to Horne’s poem which appeared in the Daily News on 29 June 1846. EBB also sent RB a copy of the poem on 4 July (see letter 2461).

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