346. EBB to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 204–205.

[Malvern Wells]

[ca. 6 July 1829] [1]

My dearest Henrietta will forgive my writing two or three words only, & only about myself—& my dearest Bummy will forgive my not writing to her at all, until tomorrow by Daly. I wish you to send me Mr Williams’s dissertation which is lying on my table, [2] —for it appears that I can send it to Sir U Price from hence. Send also as many volumes of the Modern Philosophers [3] as you have done with. William is surprised at Dominic’s not have arrived already; & the circumstance of there being no letter today, makes me think his coming tomorrow very probable. I feel as if I had been at least a year away from you all!–

Ever your affectionate Ba.

Address, on integral page: Miss Henrietta Barrett.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: In private collection.

1. Dated by Dominick Trant’s expected arrival on 7 July.

2. Possibly Dissertation on the Pelagian Heresy (1808), by John Williams (1792–1858), Archdeacon of Cardigan.

3. Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (3 vols., 1800), by Elizabeth Hamilton (1758–1816).

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