SD2279. William Wetmore Story to Christopher Pearse Cranch

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 26, 361–362 (in part).

[Siena]

[10 August 1859]

In politics he takes the warmest interest; is a vehement Garibaldi-ite, and has scored some …

Browning and his wife are living here within stone’s throw and he comes over every evening, and we have long talks together under the trees on our lawn and terrace. He is perfectly well, but his wife really has been very ill, dangerously so. She caught a violent cold in Florence, and was so reduced in strength, that we were all very much alarmed. B. brought her here, as it were, in his arms, and she is now better, but still so weak that she cannot walk across the room without assistance, and coughs terribly. I saw her on her arrival, and carried her in my carriage to the Inn, but she has not been well enough to receive a visit from Emelyn yet, though she has been here for ten days. They have taken a villa for the summer, and we have also found a villa close by for Landor. …

Publication: None traced.

Source: Transcript at Massachusetts Historical Society.

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