1841. Benjamin Robert Haydon to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 10, 75.

London

Feby 13th 1845.

I am almost afraid to ask how you are? if you are not ill will you spare me the Cupid & Psyche, my oil Sketch, and lend me your copy of your poems– Frank has taken mine to Cambridge[.] I am Winging Uriel[.] [1]

Yours ever

B R Haydon

Miss B. Barrett

Address, on integral page: Miss B. Barrett / 50 Wimpole St.

Publication: EBB-BRH, pp. 182–183.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

1. Probably no. 163 in Pope’s checklist, “Uriel Revealing Himself to Satan,” which Haydon had begun the previous May and completed in March 1845; it was purchased by Edward N. Dennys for £210 (Pope, V, 599).

___________________