4310. EBB to Sophia Eckley

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 12.

[Rome]

[ca. 5 January 1859] [1]

I was just going to write to you dearest dear Sophie, to ask you not to come today– I am feeling so tired & nervous that absolute rest & reticence is necessary to me– But tomorrow all will be right again, just as yesterday all was beautiful & pleasant.

Peni is better, & we all love you– I wish you had said that you yourself had not suffered from the fatigue–

In true love

your Ba

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Approximate dating based on EBB’s reference to Pen’s health and her own fatigue, which perhaps brought on the “dyspepsia” mentioned in letter 4312.

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