4180. EBB to Sophia Eckley

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 123.

[Florence]

[?mid-May 1858] [1]

Yes, dearest Sophie, I will drive when you please. And for Do, is he good today? Dear child—may he come at two? Peni shall go for him then. I feel with you so in the pain of your austerities– Ah, they are necessary sometimes. And if today they are necessary … But I hope, I hope not–

Your loving, as ever,

EBB—

or Ba.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Conjectural date based on the style of EBB’s closing, which is similar to that of letters 4172 and 4181.

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