379. EBB to Hugh Stuart Boyd
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 252.
Hope End
August 13th [1830] [1]
My dear Mr Boyd,
Thank you for letting us know about Dr Adam Clarke,—but I am afraid it is all in vain. Papa has heard him twice in London,—and I, who should so very much like to take advantage of his being at Worcester, am very sorry to find it impossible to do so. I am writing this in a great hurry that Bro may leave it at Malvern. I forgot, when I saw you last, to tell you how delighted Mr Owen was with you[r] epigram on the Tom Cat. [2] He is a man of some talent, & would be, I believe, a good classic if other avocation did not compel him to neglect that line of study. Bro is calling out to me to “abbreviate my sentences”, therefore believe me dear Mr Boyd
Your sincere friend
EBB–
The “therefore” in the last line is out of place.
Address, on integral page: H. S. Boyd Esqr
Publication: EBB-HSB, p. 105.
Manuscript: Wellesley College.
1. Dated by reference to Boyd’s epigram (see letter 362).
2. EBB also sent a copy to her brother Sam, who wrote to Henrietta, 8 April 1830: “Tell Ba that I think her Tom Cat Epitaph capital. I have given several copies of it away for Albums” (SD719).
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