SD2471. Mary Howitt to Margaret Howitt

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 294 (in part).

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July 10, 1861.

Annie and Adelaide Procter had a very pleasant and most interesting visit, the day before yesterday, to Julia, at Hampton Court. …

Adelaide Procter gave Annie many beautiful and touching particulars of Mrs. Browning’s death. She did not appear to suffer much, and became quite conscious before her departure. She spoke to her husband very calmly of the beautiful land to which she was going, and which she already saw. Everybody is especially sorry for her little boy, who has never been away from his mother’s side. I cannot myself doubt but that her loving spirit will be permitted to watch over him now, with even greater yearning and affection than before.

Text: Mary Howitt, An Autobiography, ed. Margaret Howitt (London, 1889), p. 242.

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