1661. Richard Hengist Horne to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9, 64–65.
[London]
Saturday Morg [Postmark: 27 July 1844]
Up to this moment, my dear Miss Barrett, I have never known certainly if I sh’d (bodily) be able to call in Wimpole St—because I could not call merely– I sh’d certainly remain an hour or two, <or three or four.> [1] All my arrangements were built for the day I named. If therefore I do not call, it will be from the impossibility. And I will write from Prussia, presently; and when I return, I shall hope to make the acquaintance of your sisters, and that they will not believe one fraction of a syllable of the rude things laid to my charge by dear Mrs. Orme and dear E. B.
Yours truly
always
H.
Address: Miss E. B. Barrett / 50 Wimpole St / Cavendish Sqre.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Pierpont Morgan Library.
1. The bracketed passage is inserted above the line.
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