3989. EBB to Elizabeth Clementine Kinney

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 59.

Casa Guidi.

Tuesday morning. [?14 April] [1857] [1]

My dear Mrs Kinney,

I should have written by your servant– As you are so kind as to desire it I will not fail you this evening, let the wind blow any way—I will come.

And if it turns out mortal, you will remember me (wont you?) as having been

affectionately yours

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Docket, in unidentified hand: 1857.

Publication: Bosco, p. 117.

Manuscript: Harvard University.

1. Year provided by docket. Day and month suggested by the possibility that EBB is accepting an invitation to Mrs. Kinney’s soirée, which we conjecture was held on 14 April, and which included Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mary Somerville (see Appendix V).

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