I am so delighted that you are to lift up your voice again, and so grateful to Mr. Chorley.
Ah yes, if we go to Paris we shall draw you. Mr. Chorley shan't have all the triumphs to himself.
Not a word more, says Robert, or the post will be missed. God bless you! Do take care of yourself, and don't stay in that damp house. And do make allowances for love.
Your ever affectionate
BA.
How glad I shall be if it is true that Tennyson is married! I believe in the happiness of marriage, for men especially.
Through the greater part of the summer of 1850 the Brownings held fast in Florence, and it was not until September, when Mrs. Browning was recovering from a rather sharp attack of illness, that they took a short holiday, going for a few weeks to Siena, a place which they were again to visit some years later, during the last two summers of Mrs. Browning's life. The letter announcing their arrival is the first in the present collection addressed to Miss Isa Blagden. Miss Blagden was a resident in Florence for many years, and was a prominent member of English society there. Her friendship, not only with Mrs. Browning, but with her husband, was of a very intimate character, and was continued after Mrs. Browning's death until the end of her own life in 1872.
To Miss I. Blagden
Siena: September [1850].