BIB_ID
402305
Accession number
MA 2148.3
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1840 January 4.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 11.1 x 9.5 cm
Notes
No place of writing is given, but the letter was almost certainly written from Torquay, where EBB lived from September 1838 to September 1841.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Congratulating him on his first steps as a newly fledged lawyer and telling him how proud their father will be to hear of it; reporting on visits from Dr. Scully and the state of her health; sending news of the family members at Torquay with her, among them Edward ("Bro"), Arabella, Henrietta, and their aunt Arabella Graham-Clarke ("Bummy"): "Goings on as usual at Torquay. Occasional quarrellings to clear the air & to keep up our respective characters"; telling him that the minister and family friend George Barrett Hunter and his daughter Mary have left for Kingsbridge; teasing him about his future prospects: "now that you have not forgotten me on the reception of yr first briefs, I rejoice in feeling sure that you wont cut me when you are chancellor."
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