BIB_ID
403279
Accession number
MA 2147.45
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1841 July 25.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 6.7 x 10.2 cm
Notes
The body of this letter, which was in this envelope, is part of the W.L. Lewis Collection at Texas Christian University and its publication details are cited below.
The envelope is postmarked July 25, 1841.
The envelope is postmarked July 25, 1841.
Summary
Being a six-line fragment of a letter from EBB to Horne, cited below, in which the concluding six lines are written on the inside of the mourning envelope flap and saying "...nevertheless nothing is yet fixed - perhaps I may hear more tomorrow when I shall hear from Papa. I always do on Sundays. I hope the cream passed the Bishop of London yesterday on its way to Guido. / Truly yours / E B Barrett';" being an autograph mourning envelope with stamp, postmarks and a black seal to "R H Horne Esqr / 36. New Broad Street. / City / London." There are pencil notations on the face of the envelope which appear to be in two separate and unknown hands. The first, likely in Horne's hand, "Kenyon - Miss Sedgwick - America" and the second, "A few lines omitted - to be inserted in 1st paper - see also postscript."
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