4141. EBB to Isa Blagden

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 55–56.

[Florence]

[ca. March 1858] [1]

I am grieved for the throat, dearest Isa. And so I lose you this evening.

And I have lost you for so many—but I have been steeped in dulness, feeling as if to have to speak was too much.

Do you think this of Lytton, and why?

It is wise, dear, not to come out in this wind– Why not give me the whole of monday evening? I wont have you for half an hour, observe, in which you run a risk & I gain nothing.

I write while they talk.

Can you understand–

I love you dearly,

dear dear Isa–

Your Ba

Address, on integral page: Miss Blagden.

Publication: B-IB, pp. 147–148.

Manuscript: Eton College Library.

1. Dating based on the style of closing and EBB’s reference to Lytton.

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