188. Charles John Moulton-Barrett to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 190.
To dearest Ba:
Hope End, March 6th, 1824.
1
Dear Ba! this is your birthday
So let us all be merry when we play
Come dear Ba! this is your birth,
And long may you live in joy and in mirth!
2
And pray now always love me,
And depend upon it, I’ll pay thee;
Now dear ma’m. I must go away
To think of you, this happy day!
Your affecte brother
Charles John Barrett
Address, on integral page: To dearest Ba.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Berg Collection.
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