260. Uvedale Price to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 45.
Foxley
Saturday evening [7 April 1827] [1]
Dear Ba
My son is just arrived: I must get the concluding sheets ready tonight, or they will not go till Tuesday; & the criticisms I have received are so useful, that I shall be very glad to have the rest of them quite to the end.
My eyes pain me if I write by candlelight: I therefore can only shortly tell you that I was in every way, & on every account delighted with your verses on my birthday; & not a little vain of being celebrated at eighty, by a Muse in the very prime of life. I had the pleasure of seeing Mr Barrett for a few minutes at Hereford, & thought him looking remarkably well: I wished to have had a longer conversation, but my carriage was at the door & Mrs R. Price in it. [2]
Most truly yours
U Price
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.
1. Dated by reference to Price’s 80th birthday.
2. Robert Price had married, in 1823, his first cousin, Mary Anne Elizabeth Price.
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