Correspondence

4350.  EBB to Sophia Eckley

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 77.

[Rome]

[?3 March 1859] [1]

I take the earliest hour I can & say two, dearest Sophie–

No more portrait-painting for me, I am happy to say. The stone is lifted from my head–

Your ever loving

Ba–

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Conjectural dating based on the assumption that “no more portrait-painting for me” refers to the portraits of EBB by Field Talfourd (completed by 28 February) and Eliza Bridell (completed on 2 March).

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