BIB_ID
402446
Accession number
MA 2148.16
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1842 March 30.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (12 pages) ; 11.3 x 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: "G Goodin M Barrett Esqr/ Barrister at Law/ Oxford Circuit."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
With a seal.
Two diagonal lines in an unknown hand run through parts of the letter.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "G Goodin M Barrett Esqr/ Barrister at Law/ Oxford Circuit."
The last part of the letter is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
With a seal.
Two diagonal lines in an unknown hand run through parts of the letter.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Apologizing for not writing earlier, but explaining that she was so tired and had so many letters to respond to after the publication of her essay "The Greek Christian Poets" in the Athenaeum, "& you yourself besides offered me such a pattern of intersectory spaces between writing & writing,--that I being tempted sinned in my silentness"; discussing family news, including the election of their father to the Reform Club; writing of her friendship with Mary Russell Mitford and of Mitford's ailing father, who "seems to have lost both health & hope"; telling George that John Kenyon has visited her and brought copies of her Athenaeum essay with commentary by the classicist George Burgess and by Robert Browning: "Mr Kenyon proposed also to introduce to my sofa-side--Mr. Browning the poet--who was so honor-giving as to wish something of the sort. I was pleased at the thought of his wishing it--for the rest, no!--You are aware how I estimate--admire (what is the sufficient word?) that true poet--however he may prophecy darkly"; discussing her reading of Emerson ("there are heresies thick as blackberries"); sending news of George Barrett Hunter and his daughter Mary, who "does not like my papers"; mentioning that Benjamin Haydon (an artist, and a correspondent of EBB's) has accidentally stabbed his foot with a javelin; begging George not to travel to Frocester if he hears that there is typhus fever there.
Catalog link
Department