1048. EBB to Hugh Stuart Boyd

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 6, 150–151.

[London]

Novr 14 [? sic, for 12]. 1842. [1]

My very dear friend,

Do you think that I may be angry because I am silent? I just write to ask you not to think so.

You shall hear at large from me in a few days; but I have been oppressed by headache & depressed generally this week, & was scarcely up to either writing or reading throughout it.

In the meantime Mr Hunter has been here, & would have walked with Arabel to Hampstead yesterday, on purpose to see you, if the day had been finer. He came on tuesday & went away this morning.

I must tell you before I end, that I considered one expression in your first letter more unjust to me than your literary judgment to Wordsworth; & I leave you to guess what that expression was. You shall hear more very soon.

Ever your most affectionate friend,

Elizabeth B Barrett.

Publication: None traced.

Source: Transcript in editors’ file.

1. The internal references suggest that this letter, like the previous one, was written on the 12th rather than the 14th.

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