He is a gentle, refined boy, Robert says....
May God bless you, dearest Isa.

I am, your very loving BA.
* * * * * _To Miss Browning_ Rome: [about April 1859].
Dearest Sarianna,--People are distracting the 'Athenaeums,' Robert complains, as they distract other things, but in time you will recover them, I hope.

Mr.Leighton has made a beautiful pencil-drawing, highly finished to the last degree, of him;[64] very like, though not on the poetical side, which is beyond Leighton.

Of this you shall have a photograph soon; and in behalf of it, I pardon a drawing of me which I should otherwise rather complain of, I confess.
We are all much saddened just now (in spite of war) by the state of Una Hawthorne, a lovely girl of fifteen, Mr.Hawthorne's daughter, who, after a succession of attacks of Roman fever, has had another, complicated with gastric, which has fallen on the lungs, and she only lives from hour to hour.

Homoeopathic treatment persisted in, which never answers in these fevers.