4128. EBB to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 30–31.
[Florence]
[?1] [February 1858] [1]
My dearest Fanny, I have had a miserably anxious night with my poor darling Robert who had so much fever as quite to frighten me, &, this morning even is not at all able to get up– But I am waiting with hope the effect of the medecines .. blue pill [2] &c. There is cold, but complicated with a bilious attack. Plainly the chief mischief is in the stomach, & will pass under the usual remedy I believe & pray.
Your ms. I will look over & mark–
Oh—dont be out of spirits– You carry the dark colour of things in your own eyes—& it is not just–
Ever your affecte Ba–
Robert was observing last night how very well you were looking.
Peni goes to you after his music–
Address, on integral page: Miss Haworth.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Fitzwilliam Museum.
1. Conjectural dating based on EBB’s reference to RB’s health, which she also mentions in letter 4129.
2. A purgative consisting of mercury, confection of red rose, licorice powder, and gum mucilage (see The Pill Book, by a Retired Druggist, 1853, p. 108).
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