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Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts — John Shaqi

Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscriptsKeats, John

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Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts

Name: Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts
Author: Keats, John

Keats, John

Brawne, Fanny, 1800-1865 -- Correspondence; Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Correspondence; Poets, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence

J. K.


XXXII.

    Dear Girl,

    Yesterday you must have thought me worse than I really was. I
    assure you there was nothing but regret at being obliged to
    forego an embrace which has so many times been the highest
    gust of my Life. I would not care for health without it. Sam
    would not come in—I wanted merely to ask him how you were
    this morning. When one is not quite well we turn for relief
    to those we love: this is no weakness of spirit in me: you
    know when in health I thought of nothing but you; when I shall
    again be so it will be the same. Brown has been mentioning
    to me that some hint from Sam, last night, occasions him
    some uneasiness. He whispered something to you concerning
    Brown and old Mr. Dilke[48] which had the complexion of being
    something derogatory to the former. It was connected with
    an anxiety about Mr. D. Sr’s death and an anxiety to set
    out for Chichester. These sort of hints point out their own
    solution: one cannot pretend to a delicate ignorance on the
    subject: you understand the whole matter. If any one, my sweet
    Love, has misrepresented, to you, to your Mother or Sam, any
    circumstances which are at all likely, at a tenth remove, to
    create suspicions among people who from their own interested
    notions slander others, pray tell me: for I feel the least
    attaint on the disinterested character of Brown very deeply.
    Perhaps Reynolds or some other of my friends may come towards
    evening, therefore you may choose whether you will come to see
    me early today before or after dinner as you may think fit.
    Remember me to your Mother and tell her to drag you to me if
    you show the least reluctance—

    ...




XXXIII to XXXVII.

KENTISH TOWN—PREPARING FOR ITALY.




XXXIII-XXXVII.

KENTISH TOWN—PREPARING FOR ITALY.


XXXIII.

    My dearest Girl,

    I endeavour to make myself as patient as possible. Hunt amuses
    me very kindly—besides I have your ring on my finger and your
    flowers on the table. I shall not expect to see you yet because
    it would be so much pain to part with you again. When the
    Books you want come you shall have them. I am very well this
    afternoon. My dearest ...

                                           [Signature cut off.[49]]


XXXIV.

                                                 Tuesday Afternoon.

    My dearest Fanny,

    For this Week past I have been employed in marking the most
    beautiful passages in Spenser, intending it for you, and
    comforting myself in being somehow occupied to give you however
    small a pleasure. It has lightened my time very much. I am much
    better. God bless you.

                         Your affectionate

                                                          J. KEATS.


XXXV.

                                                 Wednesday Morning.

    My dearest Fanny,

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Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscripts

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