3123. Emily Tennyson to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 230.
Chapel House
Twickenham
[?26] Sept [1852] [1]
My dear Mrs Browning,
Your notes, among those too touching to be read at first, are now stored up with other treasures to be kept always. But I do not so much to write to say this, as to beg once again that we may see yourself & Mr Browning here and that this may be at the christening, which we hope will be on the 5th of Octr at 1/2 past one. You may not feel equal to attending the ceremony, so I will add we have fixed three for what one, irrationally enough, calls breakfast in these days.
If you can come, will you, for we should like our Child to know some future day you were here then.
Our united kindest regards to Mr Browning & yourself. This place is so damp I can not regain strength as I should do and poor baby has a cold but the Dr says he is not very ill. You know how painful a baby’s wailings are even when he is not very ill and how difficult it is to believe the ailment is quite slight, for those unaccustomed to infants at least.
Most sincerely yours
Emily Tennyson
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. Day and year provided by EBB’s reference to receiving this letter while writing letter 3124.
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