1263. Benjamin Robert Haydon to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 7, 153.

London

May 27 1843

My dearest Friend /

I send you most confidentially the rest of the memoirs—go through carefully & let me send for them monday—& give me your honest opinion[.] What a life mine has been!

Acknowledge the receipt & do be careful!! My dear Friend, of fire—not a word at present even to your Sisters[.] Perhaps you ought not to see them! God knows[.]

B R Haydon

Address, on integral page: Miss B. Barrett / 50. Wimpole St.

Publication: EBB-BRH, p. 104.

Manuscript: University of Vermont.

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