4792. RB to Isa Blagden
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 243.
Rome, Via Felice 126.
Saturday Mg [8 December 1860] [1]
Dearest Isa,
I can indeed only write “one word,” if I am to get it off by post-time. I addressed a letter to you the moment I received the final news, [2] & in immediate reply to your note left here by Mrs E[ckley]. last Monday—this letter will have reached you by now, probably. Ba continues to suffer acutely, but not more than was to [be] expected, nor so as to give serious apprehension at all—for she is good, and content to be “done for”—made try and eat a little, listen to talking, attend to Pen, & so on. I am sure she will write herself as soon as she can. I say nothing about our gratitude for all your goodness—for that is superfluous saying at any time. Goodbye, God bless you, dearest Isa.
Yours affy ever
Robert Browning.
Publication: B-IB, pp. 377–378.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. RB’s references to the “final news” and his previous letter indicate that this letter falls after letter 4788. The following Saturday was 8 December 1860.
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