BIB_ID
402578
Accession number
MA 2148.34
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1845 July 14].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.2 x 10 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.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed, in an unknown hand, to: "G.G. Barrett Esqr./ Kinnersley Rectory/ Kinnersley/ nr. Hereford."
Sealed with a wafer.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed, in an unknown hand, to: "G.G. Barrett Esqr./ Kinnersley Rectory/ Kinnersley/ nr. Hereford."
Sealed with a wafer.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Telling him that she has re-arranged the furniture in her room and Flush is not pleased with the changes; sending him love and good wishes for his upcoming birthday; writing that Mary Trepsack ("Trippy") is staying in his old bedroom; telling him that she has gone out on a carriage ride: "If the rain keeps off I repeat my daring today: but the carriage shook beyond any imagination of my heart, or power of my body. Still my strength is returning so fast that I dream dreams of reaching the Botanical gardens perhaps, or rounding the circle, before the winter comes... the fatal hour of the undoing of my Penelope's web. As it is, I walk as well as most children of two years old!"; writing of a picnic at Mary Russell Mitford's house, which was kept secret from their father ("I was walking on hot coals all day with terror, lest there shd. be a discovery--but it past--& such a pic nic, they all say, never was before"; sending news of the Hedleys and their daughter Arabella, and the "fete" they are going to at the Duchess of Northumberland's the next day.
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