Correspondence

1767.  EBB to Edward Moxon

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 9, 240.

[London]

[23 November 1844] [1]

Dear Mr Moxon,

Having just received a few (ten), copies of the American edition of the ‘Poems,’ to distribute among my friends, I take the liberty of offering one to your acceptance. [2] I am, of course, glad to see that the Westminster Review has announced a criticism of the work in its next number—and as for America, the critics appear inclined to be courteous.

Very faithfully yours

Elizabeth B Barrett.

Publication: Anderson’s Catalogue 707, 1908, lot 136.

Manuscript: Princeton University.

1. Dated by the arrival of copies of the American edition of Poems (1844), which EBB mentions in letter 1771.

2. Present whereabouts unknown. Additionally, EBB presented copies to H.S. Boyd and Arabella Graham-Clarke (aunt); and eventually to Robert Browning and Surtees Cook.

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