4561. EBB to Sophia Page

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 116.

[Rome]

Jany 1– [1860] [1]

Will you, my dear Mrs Page, [2] let your little boy wear for my sake, what I send– It should have gone to him on his birthday a week ago–

May he be clothed less poorly by all the blessings which loving wishes & prayers can draw from the hands of God–

My husband & I unite in love to you & yours, for this new year & those which shall follow–

Affectionately yours

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Address: Mrs Page— / 39. Via del Babuino.

Publication: None traced.

Source: Microfilm at Smithsonian Institution.

1. Year provided by EBB’s reference to the birthday of William Stevens Page, born on 25 December 1858. The Pages were not living in Rome in 1861, having returned to America in 1860.

2. Sophia Candace Page (née Stevens, 1827–92).

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