1137. Benjamin Robert Haydon to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 6, 305–306.
London
Jan 25. 1843
My dearest Friend,
Your letter is an honor to your heart & Genius, had I recollected your Poetry that moment, I could not have said it– Let it pass for ever——
Tell me all you object to in your feelings of my life [1] —because, your criticism will be valuable & useful–
Good Heaven—dear Mary Mitford I’ll do all I can in every way, I have no doubt, it will succeed & extricate her– [2] I thought from what Sergeant Talfourd said, she was independent, when all was paid– I feel for her, poor dear Soul, as she felt for me– I will write her directly–
My subject is Edward the Black Prince entering London with John Prisoner.
I send you a sketch which will explain to you—the composition.
I am My dear Friend
B R Haydon
Address: Miss B Barrett / 50 Wimpole Street.
Publication: EBB-BRH, pp. 25–26.
Manuscript: University of Vermont.
1. i.e., in his manuscript autobiography.
2. i.e., the subscription.
3. The painting (“The Black Prince Entering London in Triumph”) was completed in March 1843 and exhibited in Westminster Hall in June 1843.
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