Correspondence

637.  Thomas Noon Talfourd to EBB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 41–42.

Temple

2 June 1838

Mr Serjt Talfourd presents his compliments to Miss Barrett and begs to express to her how much he is gratified and honored by the gift of her charming volume of poems; [1] —at which he has already glanced with singular pleasure—and which he hopes to enjoy thoroughly in the first leisure he can obtain. He takes leave to request her acceptance—not in return but in acknowledgment—of a very hasty and imperfect drama, [2] written for a purpose which has been frustrated, and having claim only on the charitable allowance to which he commends it.

Address: Miss Barrett / (care of Messrs Saunders & Otley).

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: University of Iowa.

1. Talfourd’s copy of The Seraphim is now at the University of Texas (see Reconstruction, C174).

2. The Athenian Captive (1838).

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