4381. EBB to Ada Shepard
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 116.
[Rome]
[?8] [April 1859] [1]
I thank you .. but I thank God first .. of this breath of comfort, my dear kind Miss Shepard–
Dear Mrs Hawthorne’s note was with me unanswered all yesterday, because I felt I could not speak to her a word worth her listening to–
But I have spoken to God for you all–
And this you will believe
of your affectionate
Elizabeth B Browning
Address: Mademoiselle Shepard– / 68– Piazza Poli.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: University of Texas.
1. Conjectural date based on the assumption that Mrs. Hawthorne had written to EBB of Dr. Franco’s prognosis that there was “very little hope” for Una (see Hawthorne, 14, 657).
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