213. George Goodin Moulton-Barrett to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 216.

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March 6th 1825.

My dearest Ba

I wish that you may be good and happy for a long life, and that I shall continually improve in the language you are so fond of, and teach us so cleverly, tho’ I do not like it, quite so well, as I love you.

facere non possum sine te, ad senectusm [1] pervenias me docēre, soror carissima, et sis felicia!

G.G. Barrett

Address, on integral page: ad doctissimam Bam. [2]

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Originally written “senectum,” then altered to “senectus” without crossing out the “m.” The sentence translates as: “I am unable to do anything without you, may you reach old age to teach me, dearest sister, and may you be happy!”

2. “To most learned Ba.”

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