3345. Frances Anne Kemble to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 117–118.

[Rome]

[ca. 24 February 1854] [1]

Dear Mrs Browning—I return the 2d vol of Miss Bremer [2] which I have kept a most egregious time the 3d shall follow quickly with many thanks for all—please give my love to Mr Browning & tell him that as he shall not lead my horse neither shall my horse go over the stones—for I will mount him on the top of the Scalinata [3] where there is no pavement[.]

Your’s affectionately

Fanny Kemble

Address, on cover sheet: Mrs Browning.

Publication: George S. Hellman, “Some Unpublished Papers of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 132 (March 1916), 532.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 suggested by Fanny Kemble’s promise that volume three of The Homes of the New World “shall follow quickly.” In letter 3350, she returns the book.

2. The Homes of the New World.

3. i.e., the Scalinata di Spagna (“Spanish Steps”).

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