SD2388. Kate Field to Emma Stebbins

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 354 (in part).

Leghorn

July 10– 1860.

… The Brownings, Storys and Miss Blagden have gone to Sienna for three months and if it had not been for this deuced sea which is expected to do me so much good, we should have gone to Siena likewise. Perhaps we may pass September there. Mrs. Browning brought me a beautiful pair of sleeve buttons from Rome with “Roma” upon them. I read it backwards—Amor. She is looking much better than she did a year ago. There has been no “Peace of Villafranca” to unnerve her. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Library of Congress.

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