1698. EBB to Thomas Carlyle

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9, 115.

[London]

[late August 1844] [1]

Dear Mr Carlyle

I wrote to you because I cd not help it: and your letter found me repenting a temerity which might prove, as I began to fear, offensive to you & unbecoming in me. Allow me to say now, by one last word, that your kindness has touched me deeply .. more deeply than I shall venture to express here. Some things, I think, I discern where you throw the light, .. but some things I am sure, I feel. It is much to be able to plant among the recollections of the sunny side of my life, this remembrance of Mr Carlyle’s <***>

Publication: The Cornhill Magazine, May 1915, p. 647.

Manuscript: Yale University.

1. Dated by reference to EBB’s previous letter to Carlyle (no. 1687) and his response (now missing).

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