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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : [London], to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, [1841 October 21].

BIB_ID
402429
Accession number
MA 2148.14
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1841 October 21].
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. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Mourning envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Barrett Esqr/ Mr. Palmer's/ Westgate/ Gloucester."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
With a seal containing the word "Ba" (EBB's nickname).
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Sending her love to their relatives in Gloucester, including their aunt Arabella Graham-Clarke ("Bummy") and their cousins Arlette and Cissy Butler; relaying family news about Mary Trepsack ("Now let me see what there can be to tell you--That Trippy is in your place, Arabel has told you of course"), about their father's plans for installing a stove in the back drawing-room, about Septimus's studies at the University of London, and Henrietta's social life; telling George that Henrietta and Alfred ("Daisy") went with Lady Bolingbroke to hear Ludwig Spohr's piece "The Last Judgement" at Exeter Hall; expressing concern about a new friend of Henrietta's: "Under Henrietta's circumstances--unmarried and without a chaperon--it is incumbent that she shd. be particular about her associates"; telling him that she has taken out books by Marryat and Pepys from the library; writing that she has sent back a draft of the third act of "Psyche", a poem she is writing with Richard Horne, and that she would like to bind it in a "bright, perhaps a rare fashion--so that it may outwit the annuals--and to have the back overspread with mystical figures--perhaps a great rampant lambent silver serpent lifting its solemn crest & uplifting from the earth in the dreadful pressure of its folds, a man--to typify how, according to our subject,--the humanity agonizes within the sense of Psyche's eternal. Well, then--we need only have some black-&-white spiritual pictures, by [John] Martin, to put in between the leaves--and the book 'will have a run'. That's my plan, Georgie!"