BIB_ID
402333
Accession number
MA 2148.5
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1840 June 17].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 11.2 x 9.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Place and date of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Mourning envelope with postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Barrett Esqr/ 50. Wimpole Street/ London."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
With a seal.
Mourning envelope with postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Barrett Esqr/ 50. Wimpole Street/ London."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
With a seal.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Thanking him for sending a copy of Thomas Noon Talfourd's play "Glencoe", though commenting that she thinks it is a "failure"; discussing at length her illness and Dr. Scully's opinions about her progress; gossiping about her sister Arabella and brother Edward's "romances"; asking after and sending news of family and friends, including her brothers Edward, Henry, Septimus ("Set"), and Octavius ("Joc"), the Hunters, the nurse Minny Robinson and the family servant Mary Trepsack ("Trippy"); reporting that Richard Horne has sent her a ballad, "--& we continue fast-sworn friends.""
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