123. George Goodin Moulton-Barrett to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 118–119.

[Hope End]

[6 March 1821] [1]

My dear Ba

I hope ou will let dear George kiss ou as he loves you too much and he is for the good Queen happy turns ou birth day my dear Ba I am very glad ou is for the Queen and ou say down king for he is very naughty

Ou very dear

af[fectiona]te George

Address, on integral page: To s[w]eet dear Ba / with Georgy’s / love.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Conjectural dating based on the reference to the Queen. In the previous March, Queen Caroline had not yet returned to England, to precipitate charges against her, and she was no longer living in March, 1822.

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