BIB_ID
403254
Accession number
MA 8917.13
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1822].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 18.5 x 11.5 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: "Miss Graham Clarke."
The bottom half of the third page is missing. On the top half of the third page, EBB has written the names of flowers and their first initials, separated by vertical lines; the purpose of this is unclear.
Addressed to: "Miss Graham Clarke."
The bottom half of the third page is missing. On the top half of the third page, EBB has written the names of flowers and their first initials, separated by vertical lines; the purpose of this is unclear.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Acknowledging the letters she has received from her aunt (who she addresses as "Bum", Arabella's nickame in the family); writing that she has hoped Arabella and her grandmother (also named Arabella Graham-Clarke) would come to visit her "to enliven my confinement but alas! how often have I been disappointed! I fear many months must yet pass ere I change my position and tho' I endeavour to be as patient as I can yet dearest Bum the prospect is melancholy"; mentioning that Sam (probably her uncle Sam) will be arriving soon to spend a few weeks with her; begging Arabella to "forgive this stupid scrawl for the Graces of Composition with all other Graces desert me just now"; sending love to her grandmother.
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