Correspondence

64.  EBB to Mary Moulton-Barrett

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 55–56.

[Hope End]

Feby 14th 1818 [1]

Dear Sweet Mama Take this Dream for my sake and if you do love [me] let me go to Ledbury to day —

EBB Do Do Do

Send an answer quick / in a hurry yours —

Address, on integral page: Mrs Barrett / Hope End / I hope in a good humour.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. EBB’s note comes at the end of a fanciful essay (“The little waves,” Reconstruction, D1376), which Mary Moulton-Barrett dated “Feby 13th 1818.” EBB’s own 14 February date appears on the address panel.

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