BIB_ID
403198
Accession number
MA 8917.3
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1818 September].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 18.5 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Place and date of writing estimated from internal evidence. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Addressed to: "Master Barrett/ Hope End."
With fragments of a seal, possibly containing the name "Elizabeth."
Addressed to: "Master Barrett/ Hope End."
With fragments of a seal, possibly containing the name "Elizabeth."
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Telling Edward (who she addresses as "Bro", his nickname in the family) that they were glad to receive his letter, "as it both afforded us the inexpressible delight of hearing you were safe and sound & told us that you had niether [sic] forgotten us or your promise!"; writing that for the last three days "a deluge of rain has abjured both the pleasures of shopping and of physicing ourselves"; telling him that they will be returning to Hope End on Monday; commenting on the writing and the clothing of Daniel McSwiney (Edward and Elizabeth's tutor): "Mr. McSwineys novel! It [is] really intolerably provoking. And the garters! shameful!"; teasing him about reminding her to write.
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