Correspondence

1733.  EBB to Benjamin Robert Haydon

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9, 176.

[London]

[ca. 7 October 1844] [1]

<***> I had felt some apprehension from the thunders in that quarter. The delay had seemed to me ominous—and although a criticism will not kill a book which is not right mortal, and although we authors may say so over & over to ourselves, yet, before such a critic as Mr Forster of the Examiner, we must not affect an impossible indifference. He is the ablest of the English critics—& for his kindness to my little volumes, I am grateful.

Ever most faithfully yours

E B Barrett.

Publication: Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-Talk, ed. Frederic Wordsworth Haydon (1876), I, 461.

Manuscript: University of Kentucky.

1. This letter falls between the appearance of Forster’s review in The Examiner on 5 October and Haydon’s letter to Forster on 9 October (see SD1215).

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