972. EBB to Hugh Stuart Boyd
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 6, 7–8.
[London]
Friday, [10 June 1842] [1]
My very dear friend,
Of course you will do as you please about showing my note [2] —but my own impression is & Arabel has the same, that Annie wd not be pleased & still less influenced by a note of mine addressed to you on the particular subject in question. She might think that I had no business to write to you upon that subject—and as she already knows my full opinion in relation to it I do not see how we cd gain much by running the risk. If she shd ever speak to me of it again, I shall try a little more persuasion—and you wd do more by speaking your own thoughts from yourself than anybody else could .. you must be sure of that.
Dont be uneasy about Synesius. [3] Flush did’nt swallow it—only I forgot it! You shall have the little book with another I retain of yours, by an early opportunity.
Thank you my dear dear friend for your note. Flushie kissed the harp when it was brought close to him, but he rather eschewed the neighbourhood.
May God bless you!
Your affectionate
EBB.
Another paper on Saturday—& another—& perhaps another. I doubt whether to send it or not—because you can get it more quickly at Hampstead than I can here. Still, as quickness is scarcely an object, I will send it– Good night again.
Address: H S Boyd Esqr / 21. Downshire Hill / Hampstead.
Publication: EBB-HSB, 248–249.
Manuscript: Wellesley College.
1. The letter is postmarked 11 June 1842, a Saturday.
2. i.e., letter 969, in which EBB said she felt Annie’s proposal to be “most foolish”.
3. Borrowed by EBB when preparing her papers on the Greek Christian poets (see letter 894).
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