2841. EBB to Isa Blagden
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 92.
[Florence]
Tuesday morng [mid-April 1850] [1]
So stupid I am to have neglected yesterday to have my note ready– Now, in the greatest of hurries, dear Miss Blagden …
here is the second volume of Landor, [2] the only one yet returned to us, but you will find it as good as the first to begin with.
For the mangling, Wilson never heard of anybody mangling, she says, in Tuscany. The barbarians are not given to mangling .. except constitutions & a few other things—sheets & table cloths, no. They wet & fold, & then iron, says Wilson. Surely your general washerwoman can do this for you—or if you like to send them to us, we can employ yours–
Delighted I am that you should be enjoying your villa. Robert will soon take me to see you, & the baby will go of himself–
In such haste, & not dressed, I am ashamed to say,
Your affecte EBB–
Come, whenever you can.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Fitzwilliam Museum.
1. Approximate dating based on EBB’s reference to Isa Blagden’s villa, which is also mentioned in letter 2839.
2. Possibly The Works of Walter Savage Landor (2 vols., 1846).
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