BIB_ID
402985
Accession number
MA 2147.24
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
Wednesday [1843 November 1].
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 10.8 x 9.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Date and place of writing from postmark. EBB has dated the letter "Eleven o'clock a.m. / Wednesday." November 1, 1843, the date of the postmark, was a Wednesday.
Envelope with stamp, postmarks and fragments of a seal and addressed to "R H Horne Esqr / 38. Finsbury Square."
Envelope with stamp, postmarks and fragments of a seal and addressed to "R H Horne Esqr / 38. Finsbury Square."
Summary
Responding to his note and assuring him that she never mentioned her contribution to his book to Mr. Reade and expressing her annoyance that he would suggest that she had; saying that Mr. Reade "...must have had it from especial revelation of angels - I solemnly assure you that I never mentioned the subject even to m̲y̲ o̲w̲n̲ f̲a̲t̲h̲e̲r̲,...Y̲o̲u̲ are in the wrong, be sure, my dear M.r Horne. This it must have been . . . that Mr. Reade heard from Miss Mitford...;" explaining that Miss Mitford had written to congratulate her on being asked to have a portrait done for the book and that she had replied to Miss Mitford that she had "...declined the honor & crown of the portrait, by an instinct of what was u̲n̲due to me...In fact I am the person to be vexed, - & I am vexed thoroughly...Do what you can to get me out of this scrape...Mr. Reade! Who w'd ever have suspected h̲i̲m̲ of having especial revelations?;" asking, in a postscript, "Are you sure that you said nothing yourself to Miss Mitford? if you did . . . - it is explained."
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