Correspondence

1193.  Richard Hengist Horne to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 7, 30–31.

[London]

Thursday [Postmark: 30 March 1843]

My dear Miss Barrett, I leave it all to your care and judgment. [1] I would on no account send them any poem before hand. Let us beware of Space. All ‘high terms’ are mere sound unless one knows the size of the type and page. Graham’s Miscellany has a very large page—very small type—and double columns. At this rate three guineas a page would be very hard work for us.

Oh, the new “Ecce Homo” [2] —I have seen prints of it about town. The words—“the only true portrait of” are shocking. Nor do I think it true—or only partially so.

Yours H.

P.S. I have never ‘recovered’ poor Wordsworth from his series of Sonnets in favour of hanging. [3]

Address: Miss E. B. Barrett / 50. Wimpole St / Cavendish Sq.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.

1. i.e., negotiating on his behalf for the publication of poems in America (see letter 1186).

2. The painting praised by EBB in letter 1126.

3. “Sonnets Upon the Punishment of Death,” first published in The Quarterly Review in December 1841, were reprinted in Poems (1842, pp. 166–179).

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