Correspondence

3024.  George Sand to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 64–65.

[Paris]

11 mars. [1852] [1]

Chère Madame, toutes mes soirées sont prises par diverses affaires de théatre, et prendre le thé avec vous serait un doux loisir trop impossible pour moi. J’ai encore tant d’obligations que je n’ose pas vous fixer un jour et une heure, dans la crainte d’être forcée d’y manquer. Comptez que j[’]irai vous embrasser aussitôt que je serai libre.

A vous de cœur et à Mr Browning.

George Sand

Publication: Dorothea Mary Benson, Lady Charnwood, An Autograph Collection (London, 1930), p. 150.

Manuscript: British Library.

Translation:

Dear Madam, all my evenings are taken up by various theatrical matters, and to take tea with you would be a pleasant break too impossible for me. I have still so many commitments that I do not dare arrange with you a day and a time, through fear that I would be obliged to let you down. Be assured that I shall come to greet you as soon as I am free.

My heartfelt greetings to you and Mr Browning.

George Sand

1. Year provided by reference to the Brownings’ interaction with George Sand during the later winter and early spring of 1852.

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