SD2557. Joseph Milsand to Laure Milsand

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 30, 344 (in part).

[Paris]

Dimanche [23 February 1862] [1]

Ma bonne Laure

Voilà encore que je ne vois plus quand je pourrai regagner le nid. …

Donc je ne puis pas quitter—et malheureusement si ce n’est pas lundi qu’on a besoin de moi je me trouverai cloué ici par la revue jusqu’au moment où l’arrivée de Browning me clouera encore pour quelques jours. Pourtant j’essaierai de me dégager. D’un autre côté si je vois que je parais je tâcherai de m’arranger pour vous emmener aussitôt que Browning partira pour Londres. …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Joseph Milsand Archive.

Translation:

[Paris]

Sunday [23 February 1862] [1]

My good Laure

Once again I do not yet see when I will be able to return to the nest. …

So I will not be able to leave—and unfortunately if it is not Monday that they need me, I will find myself stuck here by the Revue until Browning’s arrival keeps me here a few days more. However I will try to get free. On the other hand if I see that I am being published I will try to arrange to take you as soon as Browning leaves for London. …

1. Dating based on RB’s arrival in Paris the following day, 24 February 1862, for a week’s visit with his father and sister.

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