[10 July 1846]. Browning, Robert to Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.

              Friday 

And I am disappointed, dearest, in this news of La Cava-after which it would be madness to think of going there: the one reason we have to go at all is simply for your health-I mean, that if the seclusion were the main object, we might easily compass that here. All places are utterly indifferent to me if I can inhabit them with you-why should Palermo please me less than Italy proper? The distance is considerable, however, and the journey expensive. I wonder whether the steamer will sail for Leghorn as last year. As for the travelling English, they are horrible and, at Florence, unbearable .. their voices in your ear at every turn .. and such voices!- I got to very nearly hate the Tribune for their sakes. Vietri is close to Salerno and must be obvious to the same condemnation- Your friend speaks from personal experience, I presume- She may well say that the baneful effects