BIB_ID
402309
Accession number
MA 2148.4
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1840 May 14].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 11 x 9.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Barrett Esqr/ 50. Wimpole Street/ London."
Place and date of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
On mourning stationery.
With a seal containing the name "Arabel."
Place and date of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
On mourning stationery.
With a seal containing the name "Arabel."
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Writing of the death of her brother Samuel of tropical fever in Jamaica: "What is done, is done--& we, knowing that God did it, know in that knowledge the extremity of love & mercy involved in the doing. Oh may the great Doer teach us to bow low in unmitigated apprehension of Him as the Supreme in will--and in mercy also. Dearest Georgie, we do not know the meaning of things we suffer, more than of the things we see; but we 'shall know hereafter'--In the meantime let it be enough that God doeth all"; sending news of her father, her brother Edward ("Bro is sailing with Mr. Vaneck at this moment"), and her sisters Arabella and Henrietta; telling him that it is her "earnest wish to return home,--& if I cannot do that, to get nearer... Yet I am afraid they wont let me even try to get home. The 'getting nearer' I shall insist upon all events"; reporting that her aunt and uncle, Jane and Robert Hedley, have left Torquay.
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