4049. EBB to Sophia Eckley
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 142.
Casa Betti.
Sunday morning [20 September 1857] [1]
Thank you, my dear … shall I say it? dear Sophie, for all your affectionate words & thoughts. Robert & Peni are well,—the former after his miraculous escape, [2] of which Mr Eckley will have told you, .. & I, not more than naturally tired. We have each a nosegay of fragrant thoughts from yesterday, likely to smell sweet to the end of our lives– And how delightful, that dear little David should’nt have put a nettle into it, by the least harm happening to him! So very, very happy I am that he should be well–
And you, you dont say a word of yourself. Let me be ever your very
affectionate EBB–
I propose tuesday rather than monday for Peni’s visit– He shall go, unless you say to the contrary, at four on tuesday– And our engagement holds for wednesday, does’nt it?–
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Berg Collection.
1. Dated by EBB’s reference to RB’s “miraculous escape,” which occurred on 19 September 1857, a Saturday (see letter 4054).
2. From the horseback riding accident, described in letter 4054.
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