3350. Frances Anne Kemble to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 123.

[Rome]

[28 February 1854] [1]

Dear Mrs Browning—I send you back with a thousand thanks the last volume of Miss Bremer[.]

What a day for the Carnival! our Valerano [2] party is put off till the 4th of next month[.] I do hope the sun will shine & you will be well and able to go with us[.]

Your affectionate FK

Address, on cover sheet: Mrs Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Scripps College.

1. Date suggested by Fanny Kemble’s references to the “Carnival” and to the “Valerano party” being put off until 4 March, a Saturday. In letter 3349, EBB writes of an “excursion into the Roman neighbourhood” planned for “next saturday.”

2. Sic, for Vallerano, a small village in the Campagna, about 7 miles S. of Rome.

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