3107. EBB to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 211–212.

58 Welbeck street

Saturday. [11 September 1852] [1]

I was wrong about Monday after all, just as Arabel thought. We have an engagement with Mr Ruskin–

Therefore it’s all over for monday, but dont let it be all over for us—take wednesday, if you can, & give it to us.

And dont, for love’s sake & truth’s sake, have morbid fancies, blaspheming against deathless natures such as the soul’s,—& dont fancy, neither, that I do not understand & feel your kindness, or mislove you in return. No, indeed!

Your affectionate

Ba–

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Fitzwilliam Museum.

1. Dated by EBB’s reference to “an engagement with Mr. Ruskin,” whom the Brownings visited on Monday, 13 September 1852 (see letter 3110).

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