4741. RB to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 150.

[?Siena]

[?18 September] [1860] [1]

Dearest—dearest. You will find a letter from Arabel: I noticed the black seal, and knowing your ways, could not help breaking it, to be able to save you even a moment’s fear by telling you, as I now can, that it is all right [2] —as the first line,—all I read,—convinces me. Won’t you forgive me, for the true motives sake? Your own RB

Publication: None traced.

Source: Transcript in editors’ file.

1. Conjectural dating based on the possibility that EBB answered Arabella’s letter the day after it came (see letter 4743).

2. i.e., it contained no bad news about Henrietta.

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