Correspondence

5519.  Julia Wedgwood to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 197–198.

Cumberland Place

Saturday Jan 7th /65

Tomorrow is to be abolished too, though I am writing here, for I am to spend Sunday with relations elsewhere. I shd like to hear meantime that you are quite well, & not only better.– I think on your own shewing your lovers make a very moral tale, [1] which I fear was the last thing you intended, people who with out a good cause took up such a life wd deserve that most tragic ending of getting tired of each other’s love.—though with a good cause I can imagine the best of life in store for them.

See how I shall improve you when my time comes!—do you think you shall enjoy reading me in Purgatory?

Send me one line here to say you are not going to make that journey just yet.– I have been living in the midst of anxiety & am grown fanciful.

Yrs ever

FJW.

Publication: RB-JW, p. 124.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Continuing the discussion of “James Lee.”

___________________