Correspondence

749.5.  EBB to Richard Hengist Horne

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 4.

[Torquay]

[late March 1840] [1]

<***> But I hope many things (some of them impossible, and the brighter for that) lying here in prison with futurity cut down before my face and therefore I try to make another for myself beyond––“but,” says my physician “if you want to go to London you must eat some more soup.” and this is the way we descend. <***>

Publication: None traced.

Source: Extract in a letter from Richard Hengist Horne to William Johnson Fox, dated 6 April 1840 (transcript in editors’ file).

1. Dating suggested by the date of Horne’s letter to Fox and by reference to letter 746 in which EBB mentions her desire to be in London in the summer.

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