4926. RB to Kate Field

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 175.

[Florence]

July 6. [1861] [1]

Dear Friend, God bless you & yours for all your kindness which I shall never forget: I cannot write now—except to say this—and, besides, that I have had great comfort from the beginning. I know you are truth’s self in all you profess to feel about her—she also loved you, as you felt. I shall see you soon and talk with you. Meantime and ever remember me as

Your affectionate

RB.

I speak to Mrs Field also, you understand.

Publication: Lilian Whiting, Kate Field: a Record (Boston, 1899), p. 139.

Docket, in unidentified hand: Florence. 1861.

Manuscript: Boston Public Library.

1. Year provided by docket.

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