50 Wimpole Street.
August 1843
Dear Mr Westwood,
I thank you very much for the kindness of your questioning, & am able to answer that notwithstanding the .. as it may seem to you .. fatal significance of a woman’s silence, I am alive enough to be sincerely grateful for any degree of interest spent upon me. As to Flush, he should thank you too—but at the present moment he is quite absorbed in finding a cool place in this room to lie down in, having sacrificed his usual favorite place at my
[ca. 8] August 1843. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett to Westwood, Thomas.
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1843-08-08
Author
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Westwood, Thomas
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50 Wimpole Street.
August 1843
Dear Mr Westwood,
I thank you very much for the kindness of your questioning, & am able to answer that notwithstanding the .. as it may seem to you .. fatal significance of a woman’s silence, I am alive enough to be sincerely grateful for any degree of interest spent upon me. As to Flush, he should thank you too—but at the present moment he is quite absorbed in finding a cool place in this room to lie down in, having sacrificed his usual favorite place at my