50 Wimpole Street.
Feb 3. 1845.
Why how could I hate to write to you; dear Mr Browning? Could you believe in such a thing? If nobody likes writing to everybody (except such professional letter writers as you & I are not-) yet everybody likes writing to somebody-& it wd be strange & contradictory if I were not always delighted both to hear from you & to write to you .. this talking upon paper being as good a social pleasure as another, when our means are somewhat straightened. As for me, I have done most of my talking by the post of late years-as people shut up in dungeons, take up with
3 February 1845. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Browning, Robert.
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1845-02-03
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Browning, Robert
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50 Wimpole Street.
Feb 3. 1845.
Why how could I hate to write to you; dear Mr Browning? Could you believe in such a thing? If nobody likes writing to everybody (except such professional letter writers as you & I are not-) yet everybody likes writing to somebody-& it wd be strange & contradictory if I were not always delighted both to hear from you & to write to you .. this talking upon paper being as good a social pleasure as another, when our means are somewhat straightened. As for me, I have done most of my talking by the post of late years-as people shut up in dungeons, take up with