ABSTRACT
First publ. in Dearest Isa 3; our text is that of the MS at ABL (Collections, E296). B.’s letter to Isa Blagden is dated by McAleer to 1 Aug. 1857; the Brownings were at Bagni di Lucca and keen that Miss Blagden should join them with her friend Annette Bracken:
Ba is very well,—I count on her pressing you to come more earnestly than I venture to do. What is [Robert] Lytton going to do? Has he decided on anything? He knows all about this Bagni di Lucca,—& I don’t mind wishing he would come, wishing it with all my heart.
