Tuesday Nov. 29.

Today Miss Boyd & Miss Bordman leave Malvern. Had a letter from Mrs. Boyd which I ought to have had last Sunday; & then I might have gone to say good bye on Monday. But it is as well. I cant bear saying good bye.— And I shall see more of Mr. Boyd, who always must & will stand first in the canvass, by going on Wednesday. Mrs. Boyd says that she has [“]invited Miss H M.!!”—[1] I annoyed. I wont go to Ruby Cottage as long as she is there—shant be wanted: & wont be wanted. Sent two little poems & a letter to the editor of the N M M—Bulwer, I think his name is.[2] If he does not pay me for my contributions, what in the world am I to do with all my debts?—

Papa is coming this week. Dear dear Papa!— Pro & conning about Bummy Henrietta & Bro dining at Eastnor on Thursday, according to invitation. Conned out of the question. Wrote to Papa!—

1. Henrietta Mushet (1802–65), who later married the Rev. George Roberts, Curate of Coleford, was the second child of David Mushet, the metallurgist. She was an old friend of H.S.B., and sometimes acted as his amanuensis; that they had a serious disagreement in 1832 is clear from E.B.B.’s letters, but the references are too oblique to reveal the cause of the upset (BC, 3, 27–29).

2. Edward George Lytton Bulwer (1803–73), later (1843) Bulwer-Lytton and (1866) 1st Baron Lytton. He was editor 1831–33 of The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal. E.B.B.’s poems were not published.


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