Will you write to me sooner?
Will you give me the details of yourself?
Will you love me?
Your most affectionate BA.
* * * * * _To Miss E.F.

Haworth_ Casa Tolomei, Alia Villa, Bagni di Lucca: August 30, [1853].
Dearest Fanny,--On your principle that 'there's too much to say,' I ought not to think of writing to you these three months; you have pleased me and made me grateful to such an extremity by your most pretty and graceful illustrative outlines.

The death-bed I admire particularly; the attitudes are very expressive, and the open window helps the sentiment.

What am I to say for your kindness in holding a torch of this kind (perfumed for the 'nobilities') between the wind and my poems?
Thank you, thank you.

And when that's said, I ought to stop short and beg you, dear Fanny, not to waste yourself in more labour of this kind, seeing that I am accursed and that nothing is to be done with my books and me, as far as my public is concerned.