3655. EBB to Jessie Meriton White

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 308.

13. Dorset Street

Monday. [15 October 1855] [1]

We dont go till wednesday, dearest Jess[i]e—so you will come tomorrow to hear the hard goodbye– How happy you made my Penini! He had “such a nice day”, he says.

Your affectionate

EBB–

Publication: Simonetta Berbeglia, “Il Risorgimento delle figlie adottive: lettere inedite tra Elizabeth Barrett Browning e Jessie White Mario,” Antologia Vieusseux, 16 (2010), p. 58.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dated by EBB’s reference to the Brownings’ Wednesday departure. They left London for Paris on 17 October 1855.

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