3337. Frances Anne Kemble to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 99.
[Rome]
[ca. 10 February 1854] [1]
Dear Mrs Browning—let these violets bid you good morrow for me– I feared the cold yesterday would prevent your coming to my Sister’s in the evening. I have not yet lost the impression which I received from the most unusual dimness of your eyes on Wednesday evening—please send me word how you are this bright cold morning & believe me
your’s
Fanny Kemble
I send back Miss Bremer’s book [2] with many thanks—it has extreme interest for me for the places & people she writes of are all known to me[.] I shall be very thankful for the 2d volume when it can be conveniently spared me[.]
Address, on integral page: Mrs Browning / 43 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Publication: George S. Hellman, “Some Unpublished Papers of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 132 (March 1916), 532.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 returning the first volume of Fredrika Bremer’s travel book and asking for the second. In letter 3345 Mrs. Kemble apologizes for keeping volume two “a most egregious time,” and in letter 3350 she returns volume three.
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