Correspondence

1442.  Adelaide Anne Procter to RB

An amended version of the text that appeared in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 8, 60.

[London]

Thursday Nov: 23 1843.

My dear Sir,

The verses Mr Tennyson had originally written in Locksley Hall were these,

 

In the Hall there hangs a painting Amy’s arms are round my neck,

Happy Children in a sunbeam, sitting on the ribs of wreck.

In my life there is a picture: she that clasped my neck is flown,

I am left within the Shadow, sitting on the wreck alone.

Oh my cousin shallow hearted &c &c–

 

In the last page but one also, he had written “Let the Great world” instead of “the Peoples”–.

With Mama’s kind regards,

I am, my dear Sir

Very truly yours

Adelaide A Procter

Address: Robt Browning Esqre / New Cross / Hatcham / Surrey. [1]

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Envelope at University of Chicago.

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