20. EBB to Mary Moulton-Barrett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 16.

[Hope End]

[October 1814] [1]

Madam

It would give me great pleasure if you would dispose of this [2] as you did the other

I am Madam

Your most obedient humble servant

Elizabeth B. Barrett

Publication: HUP, I, 68 (from copy in Mary Moulton-Barrett’s hand, Armstrong Browning Library).

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. In “Poems by EBB,” this entry, though undated, appears between two entries dated October 1814. EBB assigned a numeral “1” to the first of those two entries (letter 19) and a numeral “3” to this one. Whatever may have been numbered “2” is not accounted for.

2. Letter accompanies an original story titled “The Way to humble Pride” (HUP, I, 68–71).

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