SD2203. Euphrasia Fanny Haworth to Sophia Eckley
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 363 (in part).
[Florence]
[mid-September 1858] [1]
My dearest Impatience
(That ought to be your Spirit name).
Thanks again & again for so kindly sending my letters, for which I also owe you sundry “quattrini”–
Now for what you want to know, now dear, I ought not to have been so cruel—but be satisfied & want nothing more–
“I have a letter from Mrs Eckley Yes is’nt she a poetical, pure, lovely creature? She covers the earth with her own white garments, and so walks clean-footed over dirty places—for my own part her love makes me sad, sad, sad—she sees me through it so different from what I am– What is so humiliating as being overprized?”
I can say no more at all—but this one thing—come soon and will you bring for me some three or four of those little olive wood frames if you do I will put some pictures in them–
My letter is waited for so goodbye, dear Impatience–
Yours ever affectionately
E. Fanny Haworth
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Berg Collection.
1. Approximate dating based on Fanny Haworth’s quotation from EBB’s letter dated 1 September 1858.
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