3356. RB to Emelyn Story

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 138.

[?Rome]

Wednesday. [?15] [March 1854] [1]

Dear Mrs Story–

I was so unwell last night that I could only send a verbal acceptance of your kind invitation for this morning—fully believing, as I did, that the sick headache would end by then: but so much worse is it to-day that I am unfit to say two words to anybody. Forgive & understand me, knowing me to be

Yours ever truly

RB.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: McGill University.

1. Dating based on RB’s reference to his headache and on EBB’s mentioning this letter to Mrs. Story in letter 3357.

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