1466. Richard Hengist Horne to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 8, 101.
[London]
Friday [Postmark: 22 December 1843]
Thank you, yes, I have also found that Monckton Milnes is out of print. I have written to him. Meantime, as a week is likely to elapse, shall I tell you of the great subject in which I should like you to take the lead, and I take up your thread as heretofore? [1] Or, are you getting tired of having a dig in so many mines?
I expect more proofs of other articles to-night or tomorrow, and will send you one for your amusement. Oh, but let me know if I shall explain further as to the great subject aforesaid? It is not Dr Pusey—for he is done already.
Yours truly
H.
P.S. Who is Agnes Strickland that she sh’d be named with Miss Mitford? [2] Also who is Mr Stirling, for the other [day] I heard of ‘Tennyson, and Mr Stirling[’]s Poems.’ Do you know anything about them? [3]
Do you know what foreign languages “Our Village” is translated into? [4]
Address: Miss E. B. Barrett / 50 Wimpole St. / Cavendish Sqre.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.
1. Letter 1469 shows that Horne wanted EBB to write a paper on Carlyle.
3. A notice of John Sterling’s Poetical Works (1842) was included with other publications, among them EBB’s, in The North American Review of July 1842 (pp. 200–245).
4. In the following letter, EBB speaks of Spanish and French versions of Miss Mitford’s works, but the British Library catalogue does not list any such translations.
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