Correspondence

18.  EBB to Mary Moulton-Barrett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 15.

Fenham

Sepr 1st 1814

My dearest Mama:

Pray do not let us say our lessons today, but longer ones instead, tomorrow– I made these lines this Morning– [1]

Your very Affecte Child

E.B.B.

Send back the pencil with your answer to no 5.–

Publication: None traced.

Source: Copy in Mary Moulton-Barrett’s hand in “Poems by EBB,” Berg Collection.

1. Letter accompanies two quatrains commencing “Fair and chrystal is the Spring,” also in “Poems by EBB,” published in HUP, I, 56, from a copy in her mother’s hand at Huntington.

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