SD2812. Sarianna Browning to Joseph Milsand
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 344 (in part).
[Paris]
Wednesday– [Postmark: 24 January 1866]
My dear Mr Milsand,
There seems a great deal of difficulty about a small matter, but I find after all I must put off the meeting of the juveniles till Friday week, as there is some cours this Friday at which Ellen is to be present, and her little brother continues so unwell with inflamed tonsils accompanied by intermittent fever, that Mrs Dyke would prefer another week,—I hope that by that time, all the sick folk will be safely over their troubles. I have just received a letter from Miss Haworth written in fiery haste to ask your opinion about an investment she has made in the Company of Charles Lafitte—she thought it was the Banker but it proves to be the wine-merchant of that name—whether she had better sell her shares or buy others—she waits for your advice. I shall write and tell her you know nothing about it—is not that the best? She talks of buying a house at Bonn—and complains of the quantity of money she spends.
I hope your concierge duly delivered the West India tamarinds which I brought you—now don’t turn up your nose at our insular prejudices. I assure you they are an excellent remedy. They are only to be procured at the English chemist’s, and there is a high duty on them; that is why they are not common in France—but he assured me they were an admirable medicine—the best of the kind known—as they are very astringent to the throat and at the same time slightly laxitive to the body. Every day he sells several pounds of them: in severe cases, you either reduce them to a pulp or make a decoction, but where the patient is able to suck them for himself, they are better in the natural form.
I hope you, and Madame Milsand, are both getting strong again, and that Claire has escaped. My father seems better to-day.
Ever yours truly,
S. Browning.
Another Pall Mall has just come crawling in—
Address: Monsieur Milsand, / 10, bis. rue Perronet, / Neuilly.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Joseph Milsand Archive.
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