16. EBB to Samuel Moulton-Barrett (uncle)

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 13.

Carlton [1]

16th June 1814

To her Uncle Sam, with her poetry—

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Dear Sam, accept my humble lay,

How dear to me, I need not say,

And when from Carlton I am gone,

I’ll never cease, thy love to mourn.

At childhood’s age, these faults forgive,

When I am older, if I live,

I’ll offer better verse to thee,

Who’s been so very kind to me:

Publication: HUP, I, 48 (from copy in Mary Moulton-Barrett’s hand, Huntington Library).

Source: EBB’s fair copy in “Poems by EBB,” Berg Collection.

1. Estate in Yorkshire near Richmond, about 7 miles S. of Darlington, purchased by EBB’s uncle Sam soon after he attained his majority in 1808, and retained by him until he went to Jamaica in 1827. Samuel Moulton-Barrett represented Richmond in Parliament from 10 March 1820 to February 1828.

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