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SD1201.  Edward Moulton Barrett (father) to John Clayton

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 8, 334 (in part).

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Feby. 19. 1844–

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for your letter of the 12th Feby. with the account enclosed of a certain balance due to me under the late Mr Clarke’s marriage settlement.

Mr Js Clarke must be under a mistake when he stated that I had expressed any suspicion of something being due to me under the settlement, for in fact I thought it all accounted for; but I mentioned to him, certainly not in a way to demand it, for he must recollect the motive of my doing so, that under his Father’s will, there was a sum due to me, I believe of some consideration, & with respect to which I beg to refer you to my attorney, the late Mr Moore’s letter of the 13th Novr 1837, to which I have never to this day received a reply.

I am, dear Sir

Yr most obdt Servt

E M Barrett

John Clayton Esqre

Publication: None traced.

Source: File copy at Eton College Library.

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