4470. RB to Ernst Georg Friedrich Gryzanowski

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 256.

Siena,

Aug. 15. ’59.

Dear Dr Grisanowski,

You will be glad to know that my wife is much better: her recovery seems slow, but may be all <…> [1] for that. The cough is gone <…> begins

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She now takes her usual diet, in diminished quantity, & no medecine. To-day she begins with asses-milk—a remedy that has been tried successful<ly in> her case <before>

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outside the Villa but our sitting-room is a regular Æolus’ cave, [2] —one only gets too much of his blustering <…> at this moment <…> paper

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Pray remember us both as most grateful for all your goodness, my wife as well as

Yours ever faithfully

Robert Browning.

Publication: NL, pp. 123–124.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. The bottom of the single folded sheet, on which this four-page letter is written, has been torn away, resulting in the loss of about two lines of text from each of the first three pages.

2. In Greek mythology, Æolus was the king of the winds, which he kept locked away in a cave on the mythical isle of Æolia.

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