BIB_ID
403246
Accession number
MA 8917.11
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1821 March].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 18.1 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Place and date of writing determined from internal evidence. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Addressed to: "Master Storm Barrett."
Addressed to: "Master Storm Barrett."
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Teasingly accusing Charles about his "shameful dereliction" from his political principles; explaining that she has been following the news from London (where the six-year-old Charles was staying) assiduously, but has seen no reports of his imprisonment: "But no! you were not even mentioned in the papers as being taken up for a slight riot--for a triffling [sic] row--or even for breaking my Lord Castlereaghs kitchen window!--Pray Sir what is the use of singing [Thomas] Wallace till you are hoarse--what is the use of professing radical principles if you do not act up to them? A sudden thought has struck me!! I really believe that you are afraid of being hanged! If you are, let me tell you Sir that you are unworthy of the cause! Nothing is more pleasant than that little tickling sensation about the throat caused by the friction of a rope!--And then such a delightful view from the top of Newgate!"; telling him that she hopes this has some influence on him and she trusts that she will soon read of the hanging of one "Master Storm Barrett a young man of prepossessing appearance...".
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