1645. EBB to Cornelius Mathews

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9, 41.

50 Wimpole Street

July 2. 1844

My dear Mr Mathews,

I send you 3 sheets .. continuing from the opening of “Duchess May” .. to page 112 of my second volume. [1] It seems as if I threw sheet after sheet out into space without an echo, .. or sign of sound as to where they fall or flutter. Do write! I fear for my book & for you .. lest I shd be straining the point of kindness. Dare I write .. or not?

Ever truly yours

EBB.

Address: Cornelius Mathews Esqr

Docket, in Mathews’s hand: EBB London. / Rd 18th July. 1844 / with sheets to pp 112. 2d vol.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library and Harvard University.

1. EBB is referring to three signatures of sixteen pages each. She recorded the shipment of sheets to America in her address book (see Appendix IV).

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