363. EBB to Eliza Peyton

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 230.

Hope End.

Wednesday. [ca. January 1830] [1]

My dear Mrs Peyton,

I return the third volume of Salathiel, [2] with a great many thanks to you; &, I ought to add, a great many apologies, for detaining it so long.

While it is snowing, you will not expect me to say anything about our visit to you: but we hope, on every account, that winter has returned for the purpose of staying a very short time with us; & that we may soon have occasion to trouble you with another note.

Do send back a line, to let us know whether Mrs Griffith is not suffering from the change of season; & believe me, dear Mrs Peyton; with our kindest regards, ever most sincerely yours

E B Barrett

Address, on integral page: Mrs Peyton.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dated by reference to the novel Salathiel, the snow, and the handwriting. There is no watermark.

2. Salathiel: A Story, of the Past, the Present, and the Future (3 vols., 1829), by George Croly (1780–1860).

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