BIB_ID
402292
Accession number
MA 2148.2
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1839 January].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Address panel: "George G Barrett Esqr."
The letter is undated and no place of writing is given. From internal evidence, it appears to have been written in the winter of 1839; Landis assigns it to the period "November-December 1839" and Kelley & Hudson estimate it as "ca. January 1839." It was almost certainly written from Torquay, where EBB lived from September 1838 to September 1841.
The letter is undated and no place of writing is given. From internal evidence, it appears to have been written in the winter of 1839; Landis assigns it to the period "November-December 1839" and Kelley & Hudson estimate it as "ca. January 1839." It was almost certainly written from Torquay, where EBB lived from September 1838 to September 1841.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Thanking him for sending a copy of the works of Ben Jonson; teasing him about his inconsistent positions on gift-giving; quoting from Jonson's Epigrams; telling him about a letter she received from Mary Russell Mitford that contained the lines "I hate the law & all its professors. Dont you?"; mock-agreeing with Mitford; instructing her siblings not to scold her for writing, since she paces herself ("I have done it day by day"), and mentioning that she fears particularly writing to "Stormie" (the family nickname for Charles Moulton-Barrett).
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