BIB_ID
402389
Accession number
MA 2148.11
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1841 June 24].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (12 pages) ; 11.1 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. Landis dates this letter to July 1841, but the abbreviation on the postmark ("JU") matches other postmarks on letters sent in June 1841; letters sent in July have "JY" on the postmark.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Barrett Esqr/ 3. Paper Buildings/ Temple/ London."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
Crossed writing on the first page.
On mourning stationery.
With a seal.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Barrett Esqr/ 3. Paper Buildings/ Temple/ London."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
Crossed writing on the first page.
On mourning stationery.
With a seal.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Telling George of Dr. Scully's inconsistency regarding her return to London ("Dr. Scully himself has been vibrating in a manner provoking to me"), first approving of it, then strongly discouraging it, then coming around to it; emphasizing her own fixed decision on the matter; pointing out that, while everyone is accusing her of being excitable, Dr. Scully has in fact been far more worked-up than she has ("Then he went on to tell me how he got up at four in the morning to make notes about me, & to examine a map of London & the situation of Wimpole Street"); listing arguments against other plans of her father's to move her to Clifton or the Black Mountains in Wales; emphasizing how much she wants to be with the family ("It is the living apart from any of you which drives me to say so much"); conveying Dr. Scully's opinions about the coach company they should use.
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