SD1568. Anne Carmichael-Smyth to Anne Thackeray & Harriet Thackeray

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 363 (in part).

[Paris]

April 18 [1852]

My darling green bonnet wd get a dunking to day Im afraid & not be as refreshed as the thirsty earth with the falling shower wh came very opportunely while we were in the Oratoire & held up for us to walk home– …

Mrs Browning has such a dear little boy, at 3 years old, he does as Papa used & draws figures & houses & has learned his letters without any thinking. …

Publication: The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family, ed. John Aplin (London, 2011), 1, 124–126.

Manuscript: Eton College Library.

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