5025. RB to Ellen Heaton
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 38–39.
1. Chichester Road,
Upper Westbourne Terrace.
Feb. 18. ’62
My dear Miss Heaton,
I have wholly trusted to your goodness & sympathy in thus keeping silent & indeed putting your friend, who called at Chapman’s, to inconvenience. [1] You were always, & will always be forgiving—and I seem excused to myself when I remember what my feeling & intention have really been—but, oh such a drag & weariness as even writing a note gets to be sometimes!
If you will once more direct your friend to call at Chapman & Hall’s any day after the next three or four, the packet will certainly be found there. Or I can send the particular Photograph you will most wish to have, by post—as you may direct.
I go to Paris next week for a few days only, & shall then hope to be here till the summer ends.
Pen is usually well—but has had the Chicken-pox (a reason at the time for my delay in writing—for there were causes for anxiety at first)—& now suffers from a vile cold—which is going, however. He is drawing, over the way [2] —so his love cannot go with that of
Yours affectionately ever
Robert Browning–
Poor Rossetti! [3]
Address: Miss Heaton, / 6. Woodhouse Square, / Leeds.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection.
2. At Miss Smith’s residence at 1 Montpelier Villas, across from 1 Chichester Road.
3. Whose wife had recently died (see letter 5021, note 5).
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