1651. EBB to John Kenyon

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9, 51.

[London]

Tuesday– [16 July 1844] [1]

Dearest Mr Kenyon I send you with Miss Martineau’s wandering sheet, a letter which I had this morning from Mr Mathews. You will not think it vain in me, the sending it,—you will understand that I only obey the natural instinct, after all your unspeakable kindness to me & the poems. <Is’nt it “our book?”> [2] Besides, having troubled you so much with my apprehensions in the first instance, it is but right .... that I shd trouble you with the satisfactions? Not quite that! But your quick sympathies will unravel the logic for me.

You will see if you succeed in reading the letter which is not the most legible how the Home Library died before my proofs reached New York, & how another publisher has taken up the work. Altogether I am more than satisfied—which means, not a little pleased.

Ever affectionately & most gratefully

yours EBB.

Thank you for the note .. just in time to acknowledge!–

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

1. Dated by the following letter to Mathews.

2. This sentence is interpolated above the line.

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