Correspondence

4045.  EBB to Sophia Eckley

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 137.

[Bagni di Lucca]

Monday evening. [14 September 1857] [1]

They are talking of analogies & conversions, so that I can scarcely write .. Mr Greene [2] & Robert are. Thank you, my dear Mrs Eckley .. I shall be very glad to go with you tomorrow at any hour. Have I written it?

Your very affectionate

Elizabeth B Browning

Address, on integral page: À Madame / Madame Eckley.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Dated by EBB’s reference to Henry Greene. In letter 4048 she writes that he was invited “to tea on monday.”

2. Henry Greene (1808–76), the British chaplain at Pisa and Bagni di Lucca.

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