BIB_ID
402341
Accession number
MA 2148.6
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1841 February 14-15].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 11 x 9.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Place and date of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence: the letter is postmarked February 16, 1841, dated "Sunday", and EBB refers, at the end of the letter, to the fact that she wrote it over more than one sitting. See footnotes in the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "G.G. Barrett Esqr/ 50. Wimpole Street/ London."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
On mourning stationery.
With fragments of a seal.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "G.G. Barrett Esqr/ 50. Wimpole Street/ London."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
On mourning stationery.
With fragments of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Responding to numerous letters from George, with their "solemn obtestations and protestations"; telling him how much faith she has in his future success as a lawyer and how often she thinks of him; discussing a project she is working on with Richard Horne: "Oh--Papa is quite right--We are sure not to get anybody to read it except himself & you--But it is our business, you know, to make it worth reading, & not to mind the rest--to work as the caterpillars do, without thinking of who is looking"; sending news of the health of Stormie and Jockie (her brothers Charles and Octavius); describing the long walks Arabella is taking: "I never remember (or at least have not for years) to have seen Arabel so excursive & capable of exercise"; reporting that she herself is "low & fit for nothing in the morning--but that is the consequence in great measure, I am persuaded, of being over-excited the rest of the day by the brandy & opium"; describing her dog Flush's peculiarities; adding that George should tell their father that she did not write this letter all at once, "so it could do no harm."
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