Also where (as in the medium-writing) you have the human mixture to evolve the spiritual sentiment from, the insecurity becomes doubly insecure....
Your ever affectionate BA.
* * * * * The end of the time at the Bagni di Lucca was clouded by another anxiety, caused by the illness of Penini.

It was not, however, a long one, and early in October the whole party was able to return to Florence, where they remained throughout the winter and the following spring.

Letters of this period are, however, scarce, and there is nothing particular to record concerning it.

Since the publication of 'Aurora Leigh,' Mrs.Browning had been taking a holiday from poetical composition; indeed she never resumed it on a large scale, and published no other volume save the 'Poems before Congress,' which were the fruit of a later period of special excitement.

She had put her whole self into 'Aurora Leigh,' and seemed to have no further message to give to mankind.