3426. EBB to Sarah Blake Shaw

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 233.

Casa Guidi–

Tuesday– [6 June 1854] [1]

Dearest Mrs Shaw I must try to catch the hem of your garment [2] & hold you a moment to thank you tenderly for what shall be to me a sign of your affectionate feelings for me & precious accordingly–

May God bless you & all who are

dear to you prays from her heart

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Manuscripts Division, New York Public Library.

1. Dated by EBB’s implication that the Shaws are leaving Florence, which they did on or before 11 June; see letter 3430.

2. Cf. Matthew 9:20.

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