BIB_ID
402572
Accession number
MA 2148.32
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1844 March [8].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.8 x 10.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Place and date of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence. The letter is dated by EBB "Saturday March 9", but Saturday fell on the 8th in that month and year. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Moulton Barrett Esqr/ Barrister at Law/ Oxford Circuit."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George Goodin Moulton Barrett Esqr/ Barrister at Law/ Oxford Circuit."
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Thanking George for telling her about his meeting with Tennyson; asking him what Tennyson had spoken about, whether he'd discussed poetry, and whether he had mentioned her; sending family news ("Henrietta & three of our males dined with the Peytons yesterday"); telling him that John Kenyon has written Robert Browning to ask whether the latter was the author of a laudatory review of EEB's Poems in the Metropolitan; relaying the contents of a letter that Sara Coleridge had sent Kenyon, commenting on EBB's poetry: "[S]he says that people who do not like the Barrettisms, prefer the dialogue part between Adam & Eve in the Drama of Exile, and the sonnets, to anything else in my two volumes. Which I can believe,--& partially see the reasons of"; sending an unidentified enclosure ("Papa's love with the enclosure").
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