341. EBB to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 200.

[Malvern Wells]

[3 July 1829] [1]

Private.

My beloved Henrietta, I send <you> my note to Angela, which of course must accompany a note from you. You can, if you like, transmit them by today’s post to Papa. Mrs Trant does not like to part with me yet, & I do not like to leave her till Dominick comes, which he will probably do tomorrow. She has been much affected this morning by William’s arrival; [2] but her general spirits are surprisingly good. I wonder if you think that I am at present cloathed with bear skins or lion skins, & that I prefer it. Send me a pocket handkerchief or two, a pair of inexpressibles, & a shift!– Give my affectionate love to my own dear Bummy, & to Arabel,—& Minny & every-little-body, Occyta included. Mrs Trant sends hers. Bro is dreadfully out of humour, & Henry [3] only gallantly patient at my detaining them to finish this——

Ever your attached Ba– Send me two

or three letters! & something

from yrself.

Address, on integral page: Miss Henrietta Barrett / Hope End.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: In private collection.

1. Dated by the enclosure (letter 340).

2. Identified by Miss Trepsack (SD700) as the servant of Mrs. Trant’s dead son, James.

3. This Henry is probably Henry Trant, not EBB’s brother Henry.

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