Correspondence

1399.  Richard Hengist Horne to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 7, 367.

[London]

Wednesday [Postmark: 11 October 1843]

I think you are wrong, my dear Miss Barrett, as to declining to appear in a portrait. I should have liked to have seen you well-done in black and white—as it is, you must put up with what you find in ink.

You are corresponding with Miss Martineau? I shd prefer to send to her direct rather than to her mother’s at Fludyer St, [1] will you therefore be so kind as [to] forward the enclosed.

Don’t repent about refusing your portrait—don’t take any second thoughts—tis too late. Would it had been .. but why repine—I mean why sh’d I repine.

Yours truly

R.H.

P.S. I leave the note to Miss Martineau open thus (there is nothing in it to read, or you might) you may slip in a note of your own, if you please.

P.S. I hope to call and see Mrs Orme next Monday morning.

Address: Miss E. B. Barrett / 50 Wimpole St / Cavendish Sq.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.

1. Before going north to Tynemouth for her health, Miss Martineau had lived with her mother and aunt at 17 Fludyer Street, Westminster.

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