3485. EBB to Mary J. Read

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 345.

Casa Guidi.

Thursday– [9 November 1854] [1]

I return the ‘Peep of Day,’ my dear Mrs Read, [2] with a great many thanks. Penini has read it through & liked it exceedingly, and I should have carried it back myself to you if the weather admitted of my going out.

With our regards to Mr Read

I remain

very truly yours

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Address, on integral page: Mrs Read.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

1. Dated by EBB’s reference to The Peep of Day, which Pen had finished on 8 November, as indicated in letter 3484.

2. Mary J. Read (née Pratt, 1818–55) had married Thomas Buchanan Read at Boston in 1843. They had three children: a boy who died in infancy (1853), Alice (1845–70), and Lilian (d. 1855).

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