4395. EBB to John Ruskin

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 134.

Rome.

May 1. [1859] [1]

My dear Mr Ruskin,

I am meaning to write to you but not today– This time it is simply to introduce to you, Mr Bridell, a very clever landscape painter, married here in Rome to the daughter of my husband’s old friend Mr Fox, of Oldham, who, she also, is devoted to art– For art’s sake, therefore, & our’s, will you suffer them to take your hand?

Ever affectionately yours

Elizabeth B Browning

Address: John Ruskin Esqre Junr / Denmark Hill.

Publication: DeLaura, p. 339.

Manuscript: Yale University.

1. Year provided by EBB’s reference to the marriage of Eliza Fox and Frederick Bridell (see letter 4339, note 4).

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