2108.5. Robert Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 24, 163.

[Baths of Lucca]

[2 October 1857] [1]

My dearest Arabel

It is such a time that I have not written to you. But now I am writing to you. I hope that you will keep my Parrot till I come to see you. Write to my uncles and tell them that if they have any thing to tell me. If so you must write to me. I have been very ill for if it was not for that you would have had my letter.

Your dearest friend

Robert Browning

Give my love to Minny and the others.

Address, on integral page: Miss Barrett.

Publication: EBB-AB, II, 315–316 (as 28 Sept [1857]).

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Enclosed in a letter of this date from EBB to Arabella.

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