665.5. EBB to Thomas Kibble Hervey
Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 4.
Torquay–
Thursday morning. [27 September 1838] [1]
Miss Barrett ventures to trouble Mr Hervey with a post[s]cript to a note now in the post office. May she ask him in case he should have the power of doing so, to substitute for the line (beginning a stanza)
The thought of loving kept me low—
the following one
The thought of love did make me low—
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Bodleian Library.
1. Dated by reference to the proof sheet of “A Sabbath on the Sea,” mentioned in SD945.
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