Correspondence

3987.  EBB to Unidentified Correspondent

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 55.

Florence. Casa Guidi.

April 10– [1857] [1]

I must thank you for a letter which is so alive with the heart, that it goes naturally to mine. I thank you for the good you have done me by this warm sympathy,—this news that I have in some degree helped you. When “home we go and take our wages” [2] after any long work, I would rather be paid so, in such coin, than in twenty complimentary Reviews. So I thank you.

May God ever bless you prays

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection.

1. Year provided by EBB’s reference to a “long work,” suggesting Aurora Leigh.

2. Cf. Cymbeline, IV, 2, 261.

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