Do write _about yourself_, not waiting for the book.
Your ever attached E.B.B.
At Paris how near we shall be! How sure to meet.

Have you been to the Exposition yourself?
Tell me.

And what is the general feeling _now_?
* * * * * _To John Kenyon_ Paris: July 7, [1851].
My dearest Mr.Kenyon,--I have waited day after day during this week that we have been here, to be able to tell you that we have decided this or that--but the indecision lasts, and I can't let you hear from others of our being in Paris when you have a right more than anybody almost to hear all about us.

I wanted to write to you, indeed, from Venice, where we stayed a month, and much the same reason made me leave it undone, as we were making and unmaking plans the whole time, and we didn't know till the last few hours, for instance, whether or not we should go to Milan.

Venice is quite exquisite; it wrapt me round with a spell at first sight, and I longed to live and die there--never to go away.