Correspondence

3620.  EBB to Mary Hunter

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 21, 254.

[London]

[ca. 7 September 1855] [1]

I wrote a letter to you, dearest friend, some days ago, & remembered too late that I directed it wrong .. to 6 Norfolk Street, instead of 5. If you have not received it, ask the postman—if not, all is right, .. I do not mean to teaze you by this enquiry. Bella’s love [2] with that of

Your affectte

EBB.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library.

1. Dating suggested by EBB’s remark about the Norfolk Street address (the Hunters had moved there in mid-1853) and by the first line in letter 3613 where EBB asks Arabella for Mary Hunter’s address.

2. i.e., Arabella’s love.

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