Supporting Documents

SD1753.  Ellen Twisleton to Mary Parkman

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 20, 369–370 (in part).

Paris

Sunday, June 5th, 1854.

… Spent the evening at Cousin Tom’s, where I was delighted to find Mrs. Greene. Miss Joy and Mr. and Mrs. William Story were there, too. The latter have been driven away from Rome by the loss of their little boy. This was their only son, and they thought him a particularly fine child and have left Rome because they were so anxious about their other child, so that they are truly to be pitied. From them I heard that the Brownings had accomplished their visit to Rome this last winter; but they said Mrs. Browning had been able to go out so little, and had been so anxious about her little son, as there has been a great deal of illness among children there, that they did not think she enjoyed it much. They said too that the Brownings were coming to England this summer and to spend next winter in Paris. …

Text: Letters of the Hon. Mrs. Edward Twisleton, ed. Ellen T.P. Vaughan (London, 1928), pp. 194–195.

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