629. EBB to Hugh Stuart Boyd
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 31.
[London]
[ca. May 1838] [1]
Thank you my dear friend for your kind enquiry. I am better today than I felt yesterday,—& then, Dr Chambers perceived some improvement upon my state some days ago. He thinks that the warm weather, when it comes, will really do much for me: and it will, if God sees fit that this should be.
I want to tell you about the Seraphim. I do not know whether the sheets are completed. I rather believe that they are not. But at any rate, I have a fancy in my head that you should see the whole book instead of a part of it—that you should read the preface before the poem,—in which I mean to teach you exactly how much to admire it!! I have had an affectionate & very pleasing letter from Miss Bordman. She speaks feelingly of your late loss—as being to her the loss of one of her earliest & kindest friends– [2]
Do give my regards to Miss Holmes,
& believe me
Your affectionate friend
E B Barrett.
Address, on integral page: H S Boyd Esqr
Publication: EBB-HSB, p. 228.
Manuscript: Wellesley College.
1. Dated by the imminent publication of The Seraphim.
2. It was through Boyd’s sister that Miss Bordman was introduced to the Boyds’ circle, and hence to EBB.
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