BIB_ID
402347
Accession number
MA 2148.7
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1841 March 27.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 11 x 8.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Place of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Barrett Esqr/ On the Circuit/ Monmouth."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
On mourning stationery.
With a seal.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Barrett Esqr/ On the Circuit/ Monmouth."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
On mourning stationery.
With a seal.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Telling him that Dr. Scully has approved her return to London later in the spring, and that she looks forward to it: "All that remains to me of earthly happiness seems to me dependent upon my return to Wimpole Street. Dr. Scully's honest opinion is in its favor. I want to be with you all--none away, but those whom God has taken. And as to this air, however I may eat & drink or even speak & smile in it, it is & always must be to me by day & night like the air of a thunder-storm"; relaying news about various family members, including that their father has dined twice with John Kenyon (a close family friend) and met "Joanna Baillie the poet Milnes, Mrs. Coleridge, & Babbage", and that "Stormie [Charles Moulton-Barrett] wont go out now I am sorry to say---but take no notice"; telling him that she and Richard Horne have drafted "the skeleton-process of the first act of our Drama"; commenting on Horne's work for the Royal Commission investigating the employment of children in mines and factories: "What a national dishonor it is, that high spirits shd be thurst [sic] upon such work! Two thousand a year & a title for man-slaying, & for man-helping & glorifying, naught!"
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