SD2728. Sarianna Browning to Joseph Milsand
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 31, 309 (in part).
151, rue de Grenelle.
Nov. 4th [1864] [1]
My dear Mr Milsand,
Many thanks for your letter—it is always a satisfaction to me to hear from you. The accounts you give of the dear sufferer are sweet as well as sad. I am glad you have some active part to take, as nurse,—I know by experience how it relieves the feelings to have some services to render—small and poor as they seem, when one would gladly give one’s life,—yet they are all we can do, and love gives them worth. I remember how happy I was when my mother used to let me wash her feet. You must feel, too, what a comfort it is to your mother to have you near her,—she is greatly blessed to have a happy home here, and the prospect of a happier one above, so that it is well with her, living or departing; it is the embodiment of the twenty third psalm. God’s love, and her children’s, will be with her to the end—beyond the end—there is the comfort—no real end.
I wish I had any news to tell you, but if there are any stirring I am out of the way of hearing them. Certainly, as you surmise, I am almost always alone, for though I have some friends in Paris, I have no companion. I miss Miss Haworth, whom I used to see every morning in the rue Montaigne, and whose supply of books and journals was a great resource. I went down to Marly last week, and stayed one whole day and two nights; but I felt uneasy at leaving my father, though he is quite well. We called <***>
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Joseph Milsand Archive.
1. Dated by reference to Madame Milsand’s illness, which is also mentioned in SD2731.
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