Correspondence

4335.  RB to Sophia Eckley

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 64.

[Rome]

Thursday Morning. [?17] [February 1859] [1]

My dear Mrs Eckley,

Ba is at this moment in the throes of sitting for her portrait—& bids me say for her that she accepts thankfully your offer. Her truest love, as ever, goes to you with that of

Yours affectionately

Robert Browning.

Publication: NL, p. 124 (as ca. August 1859).

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Conjectural date based on RB’s reference to EBB’s sitting for her portrait, presumably the one by Field Talfourd, begun on 24 January and completed by 28 February.

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