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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : [Torquay], to Richard Hengist Horne, [1841 January].

BIB_ID
402854
Accession number
MA 2147.6
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1841 January].
Description
1 item (7 pages) ; 11.0 x 8.9 cm
Notes
Date and place of writing from a footnote to the published letter cited below. The published letter dates it as "late January." .
Written on mourning stationery.
Summary
Expressing her happiness that he liked the subject she proposed (see MA 2147.5); continuing with her suggestions saying "It seems to me we should avoid allegory in any cold strict sense, - & hold fast the individualities of the human beings;" suggesting names for the characters, suggesting a title and saying "And as to the title generally ...why what shall be said? That is a graver point. 'Psyche Unveiled' w'd surely do...You speak of a Greek-English title. Such as 'The apocalypse of Psyche.'? or 'Psyche apocalyptic' ...Oh, it wont do - will it? Shall it be more Greek than English? But then nobody, not most bodies at least, will know what we mean. Psyche the Pursuer? or the Persecutor? Psyche the Terrible?;" expressing her satisfaction that he was pleased with her outline; referring to her continuing headaches saying "Only my head aches so, that I can scarcely see to write down whatever part of the pleasure w'd be otherwise expressive...Oh, I have an agreeable sense of writing nonsense - coincident with the close of every sentence. Can you make out anything?;" commenting on an unfavorable review of his essay on Chaucer.