3305. Adelaide Sartoris to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 36.

[Rome]

[ca. 20 December 1853] [1]

Dear Mr Browning– I hope you remember me sufficiently to allow your little boy to come to us next Saturday from three to six oclock? My children [2] have a great meeting of small friends that day, & I would take every care of your boy if you would trust him to me?

faithfully yours

Adelaide Sartoris

Address, on integral page: Mr Browning / 43 Bocca di Leone.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Yale University.

1. Approximate dating based on Mrs. Sartoris’s invitation to her children’s Christmas Eve party, which EBB discusses in letter 3310. In 1853, Christmas Eve fell on a Saturday.

2. Adelaide Sartoris (née Kemble) and her husband Edward had three children: Greville Edward (1843–73), Mary (“May”) Theodosia (1845–1925), and Algernon Charles Frederick (1851–93).

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