133. Mary Moulton-Barrett to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 130–131.
[Hope End]
[ca. June 1821] [1]
I well know how pleased my Elizth will be to receive the enclosed acct, of all the wandering thoughts of her dear Hentta which were I believe for one day & night very bewildering to her aching head, but now, thank God, it is perfectly restored to its usual clearness & precision; All fever is gone, & in spite of the roseate tint being rather too promiscuously strewn, her dear little contented face has recovered much of its beauty, & she looks clean & happy in her snug nightcap, & lilly white night gown. Bro visits her very often & makes her laugh very merrily, and when she has no visitors, she amuses herself with a book or reading the newspaper, which she says “she has got a great fancy for just now,” so I conclude with your measles she received also, the infection of politics– To<morrow I dare> say, she may be up
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first hours of his arrival last night, & they are all gone out together to try how far this propitious wind will favor its flight, & reward their ingenuity. Mrs Watson & Miss Skinner [3] have just called & are to take this on with them to Ledbury, so that I am in great haste Miss S. looks dreadfully ill tho’ she <***>
Address, on integral page: <S M Barr>ett Esqr MP. / <Spa> Hotel / Gloucester.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: British Library.
1. Dated by Henrietta’s progress in recovering from the measles mentioned in preceding letter.
2. Lower half of page torn off.
3. Probably Mrs. G. Watson, who lived at Bronsil, near Eastnor Castle; a Miss Elizabeth Skinner, milliner, lived at Southend, Ledbury.
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