323. EBB to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 172.

[Hope End]

[ca. 9 October 1828] [1]

My beloved Henrietta,

I am very grateful to you for writing—and for telling me that my beloved Papa is so well. Thank him from me for his kind line which I have read again & again—my heart thanks him. I am very well—and all here are quite well—but it will make me and all of us better to see you all.

Give my particular love to my dearest Bummy. Think of me as

your always most affectionate Ba–

My best love, of course, to my dearest Papa.

Address, on integral page: Miss Henrietta Barrett.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: In private collection.

1. The handwriting of this note is very erratic, which suggests it was written before letter 324.

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