239. Samuel Moulton-Barrett (brother) to EBB
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 261–262.
13, Charterhouse Squ.
Sunday. Oct. 1st [1826] [1]
My ever dearest Ba
I recieved your kind letter on Wednesday and I dare say you were surprised at not hearing <fr>om me on Sunday, but I did not know if I was going out for I put my name down on Friday expecting a <n>ote and I suppose that Tippy forgot to write so I could not go. I have got Bro’s books and I do not know if they are right or not; so I will send you a list of some of them, I have got. Three vol of Sophocles, two volumes of Heroditus [sic] and a map of Heroditus, Essay on mind, two small Virgils; I shall keep one, the Batle [sic] of Marathon, A Gradus, Lempreyre [sic] classical Dict, A Cicero, Eae moralia, Bible; and some other small books. All that I do not want I shall send to Granny and she will send them to you the first opportunity. We had at Peneys to day Geese, and apple pudden, that is more than the Watkieytes have had. I am surprised at not hearing from Henrietta, I think she has left off writing to me for I have not heard from her for a week and more, tell her she must write before I write again. I was examined by Russell on Friday and I got second. I thought Papa would have been down here by this time as hop-picking is over. It is raining now as hard as ever it can. Just like London. I had a letter from Hartley [2] on Friday to ask me out on Saturday but I refused as I expected a letter from Granny to ask me out do not you tell her when you write though. I had a box on Saturday evening from Devonshire filled with stones and rotten apples, and I cannot find out who it is. There is know [sic] news for I wrote so lately that I told you all the news that is within these smokey walls. I will write soon again but not till I hear from some of you. Give my very best love to them all. This is not Peneys own house it is belonging to all the masters they have all paid so much towards it. I think the newgate calender [3] is given up for we cannot get any of them, is not that a pity. Mind I shall not write till some of you do.
Your ever
affectionate
Sam.
Address, on integral page: Miss Barrett / Hope-End / Nr Ledbury / Herefordshire.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Eton College Library.
1. 1826 was the only year of Sam’s attendance at Charterhouse in which 1 October fell on Sunday.
2. Perceval Hartley (1814–91) was a pupil at Charterhouse from June 1826 to December 1831.
3. The Newgate Monthly Magazine, Or, Calendar of Men, Things and Opinions ceased publication in August 1826.
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