4292. EBB to Sophia Eckley

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 307.

[Rome]

[?mid-December 1858] [1]

I cant make out why you decide on not coming here, only calling for me, dearest Sophie—you shall tell me. I shant give you up so– I will drive with you today, but I wont too often—no indeed–

And Peni shall go with Annunciata to call for his dear Doady & have their walk on the Pincian, as soon as the lessons shall be over– Pietro [2] prays not to be kept–

But I am as ever, in true love your’s–

Ba–

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Conjectural dating based on EBB’s reference to Doady & Pen’s “walk on the Pincian.” In letter 4297 EBB writes: “Peni goes everyday … to play on the Pincian with David Eckley [i.e., Doady].”

2. Apparently a manservant of the Eckleys.

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