SD1148. Edward Moulton-Barrett (father) to William Wemyss Anderson
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 5, 378 (in part).
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[March 1841]
I thank you for your truly kind letter of the 25 of last Month, which I greatly regret that I have not sooner been able to reply to– Believe me I reciprocate the feeling that notwithstanding the interruption there is likely to be to our professional connection the friendship which exists between us may on the contrary continue |unimjoined|–
You say that your Partner Mr Kemble has forwarded to you the correspondence which has passed between us, hence there cannot be I conceive the slightest use in entering upon the subject in order to justify myself in the step he has driven me to take, for after each neglect, of instructions & wrong headedness of apprehension of the subject, no one I think can on the face of it charge me with being to blame in the matter– I will not, in the relationship in which Mr Kemble stands to you, say more, & to say less would not have been doing justice to myself–
I thank you for your kind offer of affording all the information you can to me if required, which I am the more obliged to you for, as however usual it is to do so here among the respectable part of the Profession, I should suppose to be otherwise in Jamaica from the observation of your Partner that he could not with propriety have asked it of Mr Aikman–
I had been in hopes that you would have called in your way through from Norwich, when I meant to have entered upon the subject with you & might [have] shewed you the correspondence & then stated the views which it has produced in my mind;—but I have been disappointed, & now I see that you are s[h]ortly about returning to the Island, if so pray that every mercy may await you in sea & the Land & every blessing in your portion & those dear to you here & in the Island
Believe me
My dear Sir
Yrs very truly
EMB
I am in such pain, whilst I write from an affection of the nerves of the face arising I suspect from the influenza which I have had for 10 or 12 days, that I can scarcely get on–
Publication: None traced.
Source: File copy at Eton College Library.
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