BIB_ID
403159
Accession number
MA 2147.34
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
Wednesday [1844 March 6].
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 10.7 x 9.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Date and place of writing from postmark and from a footnote to the published letter cited below.
EBB is thanking Horne for copies of engravings that he was including in his book A New Spirit of the Age.
Envelope with stamp, postmarks and black seal and addressed to "R H Horne Esqr / 5. Fortress Terrace / Kentish Town."
Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) was the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the wife of Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798-1843), her cousin.
EBB is thanking Horne for copies of engravings that he was including in his book A New Spirit of the Age.
Envelope with stamp, postmarks and black seal and addressed to "R H Horne Esqr / 5. Fortress Terrace / Kentish Town."
Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) was the daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the wife of Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798-1843), her cousin.
Summary
Thanking him for the engravings and expressing her delight that she "shall have the poets at least, framed & hung up in this room - I only wish the editor had been one of them. No more superfluous words to trouble you withal. Only thank you, & thank you again;" explaining, in a lengthy postscript, comments made in a previous letter about Sara Coleridge; saying "I hope I did not seem to infer any disrespect to Sara Coleridge in a general remark made in my letter yesterday. I forgot her while I wrote it. She is not a poet - she does not pretend to the faculty - but she has a lively fancy, as she has expressed it in her prose fairy tale, - & possesses perhaps more learning, in the strict sense, than any female writer of the day. A theological essay, in appendix to the late edition of her father's philosophical works, is remarkable for its erudition, & its calm & candid ratiocination. A little wire-drawn, but of sturdy metal. I have a high respect for Mrs. Coleridge. And you will please to recollect, Mr. Horne, that when I talk of women, I do not speak of them, (as many men do, & as perhaps you yourself are somewhat inclined to do) according to a separate, peculiar, & womanly standard, but according to the common standard of human nature."
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