BIB_ID
402237
Accession number
MA 2148.1
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1838 November].
Description
1 item (5 pages, with address) ; 11.1 x 9.2 and 18.5 x 15.6 cm
Notes
Address panel: "George Goodin Barrett Esqr."
The letter is undated and no place of writing is given. From internal evidence, the editors of The Brownings' Correspondence and Letters of the Brownings to George Barrett suggest that it may have been written in November 1938, and was almost certainly written from Torquay, where EBB had moved in September 1838.
The fifth page of the letter is written on a larger sheet of paper, which appears have been used as the envelope for the smaller sheet containing the first four pages. This larger sheet has remnants of a seal and pencil notes in an unknown hand.
The letter is undated and no place of writing is given. From internal evidence, the editors of The Brownings' Correspondence and Letters of the Brownings to George Barrett suggest that it may have been written in November 1938, and was almost certainly written from Torquay, where EBB had moved in September 1838.
The fifth page of the letter is written on a larger sheet of paper, which appears have been used as the envelope for the smaller sheet containing the first four pages. This larger sheet has remnants of a seal and pencil notes in an unknown hand.
Summary
Thanking George for sending her a copy of the Dramatic Works of Beaumont and Fletcher; scolding him for not writing her directly and instead adding notes in Arabella's letters to her; telling him that the manner of his meeting with the lawyer Mr. Wightman "made me pleased in spite of all prejudices poetical"; commenting that "[t]he Law is a low object (suffer a poet to assume so much) but mind contemplating Law is sublime in itself"; telling him how proud she is of his "energy & stedfastness of purpose Georgie -- & if I live to witness your success in your profession I shall be very proud."
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