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Casa [ Silva, Silver ? ] Thursday 6th Dec
Dear Mrs Browning, Thanks for sending me the names, I find I had already the same cap patterns, but it looked so pretty on your baby's head I did not recognize it & am very sorry the nurse did not come up stairs with him, if you send her again will you tell her to do so, that she may exchange a few looks with mine, I think babies seem amazed at one another, they are not in haste to make acquaintance, probably they still feel what a world lies hidden in each person, they are not
but it is only the millionth time I have let occasions pass when suffering fellow men might have been soothed or helped pardon that the leap is veiled I had not [delivered ? ] it, Ever truly yours M. Ossoli
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not yet made callous by their habits of hasty unfeeling intercourse soon formed by what is called society. It seemed to me, when I was last at your house, as if a curtain fell down between us. A great sadness fell upon me just after Mr Browning came in; it did not seem to come from him. He seemed cheerful and glowing after his walk, but some cause changed suddenly the temper of my soul, so that I could hardly realize what was passing & the cloud did not leave me for several hours. Did you
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show any such influence. I think probably it was confined to me, but have noted the day & have in my diary, in case any interpretation should later be tendered. These fragments expressed treatment universal feeling towards Poe. several women loved him, but it seemed were with passionate illusion which he amused himself by inducing than with sympathy; I think he really had no friend. I did not know him, though I saw and talked with him often, but he always seemed to me
