4749. EBB to Louisa Crawford

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 163.

[Siena]

Monday. [24 September 1860] [1]

My dear Mrs Crawford

I am a petitioner again– May we have the other two volumes of the Arabian Nights? Peni is very anxious for them,—& he will make me send back the rest of the books, not to seem too absorbing– Your kindness has brought a great deal of relief—for he is in bed with a slight fever arising from exposure to the sun, but yielding to treatment. Tomorrow the evil will be ended, I trust–

Most truly yours

Elizabeth B Browning

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Yale University.

1. Dating based on EBB’s reference to The Arabian Nights, which Pen had nearly finished reading by letter 4753, and to his “fever,” which she more fully discusses in that letter.

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