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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