298. EBB to Hugh Stuart Boyd

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 131.

[Hope End]

[ca. May 1828]

My dear Sir,

I write one line to say that I must not hope any longer, to be with you tomorrow .. I must submit to defer my visit, for a day or two,—on account of Mama’s not being quite so well,—& other circumstances.

Believe me ever

Your sincere friend

E B Barrett.

Address, on integral page: Hugh Stuart Boyd Esqr / Malvern–

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Yale University.

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