3966.5. EBB to Mary Amalia Tassinari

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 24.

Casa Guidi

Thursday– [19 February 1857] [1]

My dear Mdme Tassinari [2]

My husband is out. How am I to venture to answer for him?

Still it does seem to me that the fourth tier would be high, especially for Isa Blagden,—and that we had better take M. Tassinari’s advice & wait till the evening for the third tier & reduced prices, if he is of opinion that there would be no risk of losing the chance of a box at all, involved in waiting.

But he must know more on the subject than we do.

Very truly yours

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Publication: None traced.

Source: Transcript in editors’ file.

1. Giovedi Graso (Fat Thursday), start of the 1857 Carnival celebrations at Florence. See letters 3969 and 3971.

2. Mary Amalia Tassinari (née Thornton, 1819–96), English-born wife of Giovanni Tassinari (1805–92).

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