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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