Supporting Documents

SD1369.  Journal Entry of Elizabeth Cranch

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 15, 364.

[Florence

[?9] [March 1849]

Coming into our apartment towards evening, Domenica, who was nurse and maid, told us that Signor Browning had called. “Oh,” I said, “what did the Signor say?” “Che cosa disse il Signore?” “Niente, Signora,” answered Domenica, “non camminava, ballava.” “Nothing, Madam, he did not walk, he danced”; and then repeated what Browning had said, “la Signora Browning a fatto un figlio maschio” (“Mrs. Browning has given birth to a male child”). This must have been delivered with great unction, to judge from Domenica’s gesticulations.

Text: Leonora Cranch Scott, The Life and Letters of Christopher Pearse Cranch (Boston, 1917), pp. 161–162.

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