Correspondence

2439.  EBB to Hugh Stuart Boyd

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 13, 87.

[London]

[Postmark: 27 June 1846]

Dearest Mr Boyd,

Let me be clear of your reproaches for not going to you this week. The truth is that I have been so much shocked & shaken by the dreadful suicide of poor Mr Haydon the artist, I had not spirits for it. He was not personally my friend– I never saw him face to face. But we had corresponded—& one of his last acts was an act of trust towards me. Also I admired his genius– And all to end so! It has naturally affected me much.

So I could not come—but in a few days I will come: and in the meantime, I have had the sound of your voice to think of, more than I could think of the deep melodious bells,—though they made the right & solemn impression. How I felt, to be under your roof again!

May God bless you my very dear friend. These words in the greatest haste[.]

from your ever affectionate

Elibet.

Address: H S Boyd Esqre / 24 (a) Grove End Road / St John’s Wood.

Publication: LEBB, I, 279.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

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