BIB_ID
403162
Accession number
MA 2147.35
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
Saturday night. [1844 June 8].
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 10.7 x 0.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Date and place of writing from a footnote to the published letter cited below.
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "R H Horne Esqr." The final 23 lines of the letter are written on the verso of the envelope. The envelope has an autograph note by Horne on the recto and signed with his initials referencing the 2nd volume of his book "A New Spirit of the Age" and saying "a noble woman is E.B.B."
Envelope with stamp and postmark and addressed to "R H Horne Esqr." The final 23 lines of the letter are written on the verso of the envelope. The envelope has an autograph note by Horne on the recto and signed with his initials referencing the 2nd volume of his book "A New Spirit of the Age" and saying "a noble woman is E.B.B."
Summary
Commenting on her writing efforts for 'Dead Pan"; commenting, at length, on her dog Flush; saying "Never in the world was such a dog as my Flush. Just now, because after reading your note I laid it down thoughtfully without taking anything else up, he threw himself into my arms, as much as to say . . 'Now it's m̲y̲ turn. You're not busy at all now.' He understands everything, & w'd not disturb me for the world. Do not tell Miss Mitford - but her Flush (whom she brought to see me) is not to be c̲o̲m̲p̲a̲r̲e̲d̲ t̲o̲ m̲i̲n̲e̲ . . quite animal & dog-natural, - & incapable of my Flushie's hypercynical refinements. There is not such a dog in the world as he is, I must say again - & never w̲a̲s̲, except the one. Plato swore by. I talk to him just as I sh'd do to the 'reasoning animal on two legs' - the only difference being that he has four, supererogatorily;" expressing her pleasure that Miss Martineau liked Orion and mentioning that she had also "praised my Pan, - which you may not think worthy of praise...;" asking him, in a postscript, not to "p̲u̲t̲ me in despair about 'times & seasons.' The book must & shall come out this season;" adding, "I hear rumours of greatness in respect to a Mr. Patmore's new volume of poems just advertised. They are said to be 'only second to Tennyson's by coming secondly' . . . which however makes a difference! Tell me if you see them, what you think of them. He is said to be quite a young man . . that is, a very young man. Oh no - I promise to try not to kill myself . . but I am very busy & anxious . . & cant help being both;" sending "five fragmentary rough-copy leaves of my preface to give you an idea of 'my Drama of Exile' & 'Vision of Poets' my principal poems. I have a new long ballad poem besides, called 'The Duchess of May' & sundry others;" asking that he return the manuscript.
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