SD1198. Sarah Bayley to Henry Crabb Robinson

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 8, 333 (in part).

Orient Cottage

Decr 29th [1843]

… Mr K has just sent me the “Modernised Chaucer” of wh I have yet seen only Mr Wordsworths specimens and thought them beautifully done– The rest I cannot expect to find so true to the very freshness of their originals, but I shall look with a curious eye at Miss Barrett’s– I wonder whether you and I shall differ materially in our judgement of “Life in the sick room.” …

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Dr. Williams’s Library.

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