1267. Benjamin Robert Haydon to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 7, 159–160.
London
May 29 1843
My dearest Friend /
You are a Woman of high poetry of mind & masculine understanding or I would not confidentially have shewn you my life first– An ordinary Woman might have been offended to have it sent her unpruned– If you have got through it—your candid, opinion—I want—with no reserve–
Yours always
B R Haydon
Miss B B
Address, on integral page: Miss B. Barrett / 50. Wimpole St.
Publication: EBB-BRH, p. 105.
Manuscript: University of Vermont.
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