BIB_ID
402433
Accession number
MA 2148.15
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1842 March 2.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 11.3 x 9.2 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 M Barrett Esqr/ Mr. Palmer's/ Westgate St/ Gloster."
Kelley & Hudson note that the second half of the address is written in Henrietta's hand.
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
With fragments of a seal.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin M Barrett Esqr/ Mr. Palmer's/ Westgate St/ Gloster."
Kelley & Hudson note that the second half of the address is written in Henrietta's hand.
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
With fragments of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Sending news of distant relatives who are dining at Wimpole Street; mentioning that she has been asked to sell copies of a poem by R.E. Townshend to assist the publisher Robert Benton Seeley, but that, "[n]ot knowing or having access to many buyers of poems (unfortunately for myself) I shall decline the proffered occupation"; writing that Hugh Stuart Boyd (a classicist, and a friend of EBB's) likes the first part of her essay, "The Greek Christian Poets", which has been published in the Athenaeum, though he "objects to the injustice of including Gregory & Synesius in the canaille of poets"; joking about the essay running long: "Shdnt you like to see the ghostly grin of enforced courtesy, with which Mr. Dilke [publisher of the Athenaeum] will receive the intimation of a fourth's [i.e. a fourth part] being necessary? I think I must propose unpaying back--i.e. the taking off of a half guinea for every supernumerary column."
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