BIB_ID
402373
Accession number
MA 2148.9
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1841 May 26.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (11 pages) ; 11 x 9.1 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 Esq/ 3 Paper Buildings/ Temple--/ London."
On mourning stationery.
With a seal containing the word "Ba" (EBB's nickname).
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Barrett Esq/ 3 Paper Buildings/ Temple--/ London."
On mourning stationery.
With a seal containing the word "Ba" (EBB's nickname).
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Responding to a letter from George and arguing that her intention to return to London is not based on emotion, but on "common sense and a rational deference" to Dr. Scully's professional opinion; discussing further their father's idea to move the family to the Black Mountains in Wales, and how reluctant she is ever to return to Herefordshire (just to the east of Wales), "thickly sown as it is with pain for all of us"; discussing the level of medical care she thinks she will need in the future; sending news of family members, including Henrietta, Arabella, Octavius and Charles ("Dearest Stormie, I grieve to say, never goes out at all"); mentioning that Lady Bolingbroke is visiting; telling him about a recent hemorrhage she experienced, caused by taking the wrong medicine.
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