211. Arabella Moulton-Barrett to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 214–215.

[Hope End]

March 6th 1825

As my dearest Ba this is your birthday I must try to find out something to say to greet you on it my store is very empty so I must call in Apollo to aid me, so great is my affection towards you, that it is very difficult to find words to express it. And indeed my dearest Ba my fervent prayer shall always be for your health and happiness may Heaven grant it and may you have many happy returns of your birthday as my sincere wish. I must now quit the presence of Apollo and attend the summons of Comus. [1]

Always remember

Your ever affecte

Child Arabell

Address, on integral page: To dearest Ba, whom I hope won’t love me the less / By saying, she is the image of good queen Bess.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Gordon E. Moulton-Barrett.

1. The god of pleasure or revelry.

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