3390. EBB to Barbara Channing

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 186–187.

43 Via Bocca di Leone

Monday– [17 April 1854] [1]

My dear Miss Channing

My child shall go to you tomorrow certainly, and I will only ask you to take care that he does not abuse his position & pleasure by eating anything rich as he has not been quite well for the last week– Thank you for allowing me to read what I return– I need not say that I have appreciated as far as my slight knowledge extends (and farther) the lovely character it refers to– [2]

Yours most truly

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Publication: None traced.

Source: Transcript in editors’ file.

1. Dated by EBB’s reference to Pen’s not being “quite well for the last week.” In letter 3394, EBB writes of his health: “For the last ten days there has been a slight inclination to diarrhea.”

2. We have been unable to identify what EBB had read.

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