19. EBB to Mary Moulton-Barrett

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

[Hope End]

[October 1814] [1]

Madam

I request you to accept this little story [2] for 3s & if you would buy this yourself & write copys to be sold for the public. I am Madam your most obedient humble Servant

Elizabeth Barrett

You owe me 8d for other things

Publication: HUP, I, 62 (from copy in Mary Moulton-Barrett’s hand, Armstrong Browning Library).

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. In “Poems by EBB,” Mary Moulton-Barrett dated a copy of this item “Octr 1814.”

2. Letter accompanies an original story titled “Sebastian or the lost Child a Tale of other Times” (HUP, I, 62–65).

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