Correspondence

4260. Elizabeth Eastlake to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 258.

[Turin]

Octr 23. [1858] [1]

Dear Mrs Browning

I knew you & Mr Browning across the table, though I did not expect you to recognise me. I will come & see you, if you will let me, tomorrow mg after English church, & talk about dear mutual friends, & take messages, or anything for you to Engld Sir Chas is at Milan, but returns I hope on Monday– Send me only a verbal message by my trusty English servant.

Yours very truly

Eliz Eastlake.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Year provided by EBB’s reference to this “note” in the seventh paragraph of letter 4262. The following month, during the Brownings’ journey to Rome with the Eckleys, EBB used the blank space after the closing of this letter for her translation of Heinrich Heine’s “Die Jahre kommen und gehen” (Buch der Lieder, Hamburg, 1827) and presented it to Mrs. Eckley. The translation was published in EBB’s Last Poems (1862).

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