3998. EBB to Robert Maxwell Hanna

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 66.

Casa Guidi

Tuesday– [?5 May] [1857] [1]

I must thank you dear Mr Hanna, as one poor word can, for your sympathy in an affliction more bitter in certain respects than such things are commonly.

When you pray for those who are very weak, the weakest, to Him who alone gives strength, remember me,—now & ever

most truly & gratefully yours

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Conjecturally dated by EBB’s reference to the recent death of her father, news of which reached the Brownings on Thursday, 23 April 1857.

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