Correspondence

3406.  Frances Anne Kemble to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 204.

[Rome]

[?May] [1854] [1]

Dear Mrs Browning—I am most anxious to know that you are not the worse for our yesterday’s expedition– I am haunted by a vision of your patient figure & face resting on the hard ground against that hard stagionata [2] in the broiling sun all along of my stupidity—send me a good word that you are none the worse[.]

Your affectionate

Fanny Kemble

Address, on integral page: Mrs Browning / Via Bocca di Leone.

Publication: George S. Hellman, “Some Unpublished Papers of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 132 (March 1916), 532.

Manuscript: Scripps College.

1. Dating based on Fanny Kemble’s reference to the “broiling sun,” suggesting a date later than April.

2. Sic, for staccionata; “wooden fence.”

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