4917. RB to Isa Blagden

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 162.

[Florence]

Tuesday Mg [25 June 1861] [1]

Dearest Isa,

Ba is better but still very weak & incapable of talking or being talked to—& who can look at your face without being tempted to the one, or expecting the other? I will try & go to you this evening & say all that is to be said– Ba’s truest love to you—with

that of yours affy ever

RB.

Address, on integral page: Miss Blagden / Villa Brichieri.

Publication: B-IB, pp. 472–473.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dated by reference to letter 4921, in which RB describes EBB’s final illness and death.

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