SD1576. Anna Brownell Jameson to Johanna Murphy, Charlotte Murphy & Eliza Murphy
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 365 (in part).
[Paris]
[16] May, [1852]
Dearest Mother & Sisters,—
I know you will think of me tomorrow—& I hope you will have a glass of wine or something better in which to drink my health[.] I shall drink yours & my own in a glass of vin ordinaire.
I have had no events in my life since I wrote to you last. I go on quietly—working—& going out almost every evening—which agrees with me—tho I can not say I am much amused unless there be Music. On Saturday I was at the house of Ary Scheffer—the greatest painter in France, on Sunday quietly with the Brownings (who are better company than any I could find abroad[)]—last night at Lady Elgins where I met the de Triquetis—Chapmans, Stewart Mackenzies & other English, besides many French people. Tonight a concert at Miss Stubings—tomorrow a party at Lady Eastlake’s, next day to the theatre—(the first time since I came to Paris!) Friday party at Madame Mohl’s and Saturday, dinner party—so you see I am very gay. I have bought (at last) a new bonnet—but never put it on yet—& am very economical—I think I spend less, on the whole, than in England. Gloves & cabs are my chief expense. I wish I knew what you would like me to bring from Paris! Charlotte will tell you what is to be had here pretty—but the truth is every thing worth having is as good or better in England.
Text: Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships, ed. Mrs. Steuart Erskine (London, 1915), p. 265 (as May 1849).
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