153. Arabella Moulton-Barrett to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 150–151.

[Hope End]

[ca. 6 March 1822] [1]

My dearest Mrs poet

I hope that the Doctor may please you on your birthday as I have phisic for you to take, and I hope that you will take some of it now, as you are a young woman, you must take a larger quantity. well Mrs Poet I think I will soon cure you.

“When thou art feeble old and gray,

My healthy arms shall be thy stay;

And I will sooth thy pains away.[”]

Your ever dutiful

Doctor Thomson.

Address, on integral page: for Mrs poet.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Identity of Arabella as writer conjectured from handwriting. Conjectural dating based on handwriting and references to EBB’s illness.

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