BIB_ID
128783
Accession number
MA 4406
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
"Monday" [1838 May].
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Viscount Astor, 1975.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 10.7 x 8.9 cm
Notes
Address panel to "John Kenyon Esq'r / 4 Harley Place."
Written on mourning stationery.
The date of writing in the published letter cited below is given as "late May" 1838.
Removed from a first edition copy of Casa Guidi Windows: a poem, 1851. (see PML 75151) with three additional autograph letters signed, MA 4404.1, MA 4404.2 and MA 4405.
Written on mourning stationery.
The date of writing in the published letter cited below is given as "late May" 1838.
Removed from a first edition copy of Casa Guidi Windows: a poem, 1851. (see PML 75151) with three additional autograph letters signed, MA 4404.1, MA 4404.2 and MA 4405.
Summary
Thanking him for the gift of the fossils; saying "...my brothers are both glad & grateful - and I am their thanks bearer, though 'so late in the day;" saying she is sorry to hear he is "...suffering so much in this universal plague of colds" and telling him she also has a cold "...which, as all my colds make a point of doing, has diverged to my chest & increased the cough today & yesterday", however it has not been serious enough to send for the doctor; adding "You may be sure that I shall see my book and think of you just at the same time - particularly as Papa tried to frighten me yesterday by hypothesizing that you will not like it. If the gentle critics grow severe, what will be done (or suffered) with the ungentle? -"
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