1581. EBB to Edward Moxon

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 8, 277.

50 Wimpole Street

Thursday morning. [?28] [March 1844] [1]

Dear Sir,

The “Drama of Exile” having much that is lyrical in it, .. in the form of choruses & otherwise;—I objected yesterday to the type being changed to the very small type employed, and am of opinion that the same shd be used throughout the poem. In respect to the one volume or two, I understood from Mr Kenyon that you recommended two. I calculate that there wd be about two hundred pages in each volume,—and if we did not mistake your views about it I am ready to decide for the two volumes.

In every respect except the change of type, I am much pleased with the proof.

I remain

very truly yours

Elizabeth B Barrett.

Publication: BC, 8, 277 (in part).

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. This letter falls sometime after no. 1572, when copy was first sent to Moxon, and before no. 1583, in which EBB mentioned this wrongly-set proof.

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