3054. EBB to Messrs. Chapman & Hall

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 18, 154.

Paris.

June 16. [1852] [1]

Dear Sir,

Be kind enough to direct that a copy of my poems [2] be given to the bearer, setting it down to my account. [3]

Yours faithfully

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Address, on integral page: Messrs Chapman & Hall, / Publishers– / Piccadilly.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Year provided by letter 3053, in which this letter was enclosed.

2. Poems (1850).

3. Across the top of the page, someone has written: “Mrs Martin / 21 Eaton Square.” In letter 3053, EBB identifies the book’s intended recipient as Mrs. Martin’s “winning little Letitia”; that is, Letitia Brabazon (see letter 3034, note 2).

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