SD1900. Sarianna Browning to Anthony Snellgrove

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 267 (in part).

151, rue de Grenelle St Germain.

Paris

Jany 23d 1856.

My dear Mr Snellgrove,

When I saw my uncle Reuben last summer, I happened to ask him if he had paid you the two guineas for my subscription to Mr Clayton’s schools, as I begged him to do last March, and he replied that he really could not recollect. …

We have left our old apartments in the Champs Elysées, and have taken unfurnished ones in the rue de Grenelle, finding it less expensive to be, as the French say, “dans nos meubles,” than to live in a furnished house. The situation is not so pretty as our old place with the beautiful view from the terrace, yet the rooms are comfortable, with a warm south aspect. I have lived long enough abroad to have learnt all the value of the sunny side. When do you pay your next visit to Paris? We shall be most happy to see you.

Papa joins me in kindest remembrance, and believe me,

Very truly yours,

Sarianna Browning

Publication: William Whitla, “Letters of Robert Browning and His Sister to the Snellgroves,” Browning Society Notes, 4 (July 1974), 17.

Manuscript: Mrs. Glynne Parry.

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