1385. Benjamin Robert Haydon to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 7, 339.

London

Sep 22 1843

My dearest Friend /

Will you return the Lion, as I want his Majesty– The Vol. of Wilkie you shall have– I have succeeded in the Lion’s head I think—giving in, & exhausted– My Lion is large & enormous in fact though the one I sent you is small–

Yours affectionately

B R Haydon

Miss B. Barrett

Illus.

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

Publication: EBB-BRH, p. 150.

Manuscript: University of Vermont.

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