BIB_ID
402574
Accession number
MA 2148.33
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1845 March 13.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.8 x 10 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 Moulton Barrett Esqr/ Barrister at Law/ Oxford Circuit."
With fragments of a seal.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "G Goodin Moulton Barrett Esqr/ Barrister at Law/ Oxford Circuit."
With fragments of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Admonishing George for being misanthropic: "[You] do moralize a most superfluous quantity of melancholy, methinks, on the 'moral disabilities' of the legal brotherhood"; commenting on ambition: "Ambition is a selfish passion--'Alone, I did it.' The essence of the ego, makes the spirit of it. And yet--I have always believed & shall believe, that true greatness rather climbs than jostles,--& that the greatest do not soil their coats & shoes in climbing. This, certainly in literature--In law, you must allow me to say that there is more room for dirt"; mentioning Tennyson and a disclosure she wishes to make in person, "with shut doors"; telling him that Robert Browning has sent her another letter; writing that Mary Trepsack will be "at home" on Thursday to a "large concourse of fashionable company", including some family friends, whom she lists; asking him whether George Venables wrote a particular article in the Westminster Review.
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