3441. Robert Barrett Browning to EBB & RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 252.

[Florence]

[mid-1854] [1]

My dearest papa & mama

I can not think such very little feet can be of any use to the Chinese ladies. I would rather have great ugly feet which I could walk with & jump with, than those pretty little feet as big as pins, only for ornament.

Your own little Penini.

Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning

Penini.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Balliol College.

1. See the preceding letter, note 1.

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