1445. Benjamin Robert Haydon to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 8, 64.

London

Nov 27 1843

I have finished Wordsworth you invisible Genius, you shall see it before it goes to the Engraver & I hope you will say it is worthy of my Sonnet– [1] How d’ye like “very like Papa, about the Nose”[?]

Yours affectionately

B R Haydon

Miss B Barrett (over)

Will you order your Servant to deliver my Jars of oil, (left behind) to my man, when I send him?–

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

Publication: EBB-BRH, p. 163.

Manuscript: University of Vermont.

1. As previously indicated (letter 1431, note 1), Lupton was in possession of the engraving of “Wordsworth on Helvellyn” at the time of Haydon’s death.

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