1911. EBB to Richard Hengist Horne
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 10, 209.
50 Wimpole St.
May 12, 1845.
You will certainly think me mad, dear Mr Horne, for treading upon my own heels (room for the bull!) in another letter. But I am uncomfortable about my message to Mr Poe, lest it should not be grateful enough in the sound of it. Will you tell him what is quite the truth,—that, that in my own opinion, he has dealt with me most generously, and that I thank him for his candour as for a part of his kindness. Will you tell him also that he has given my father pleasure, which is giving it to me, more than twice. Also, the review is very ably written,—and the reviewer has so obviously & thoroughly read my poems, as to be a wonder among critics. Will you tell Mr Poe this, [1] .. or to this effect, dear Mr Horne—all but part of the last sentence, which peradventure may be somewhat superfluous.
I heard from dear Miss Mitford this morning, & she talks delightfully of taking lodgings in London soon; of coming, not for a day only, .. nor for a week only. <***>
Text: The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. James A. Harrison, 1902, vol. 17, p. 387.
1. Horne excised this portion of the manuscript and enclosed it in his letter to Poe of 17 May 1845 (see SD1228).
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