SD2204. Journal Entry of William Surtees Cook

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 25, 363 (in part).

Bryngwyn

19 September [1858]

At 1. O’ the clock this morning Henrietta and I were disturbed in our slumbers—by a noise against our bedroom window as though a bat had fluttered its wings against the pains [sic] or some gravel had been thrown. I struck a light opened the shutters and looking out saw nothing, so doused my glim again and “turned upon my antipodes in bed.” A knocking at the hall door again called me up. I scraped a lucifer—quickly threw some clothes on—and was in the hall in less time than it has taken me to write this—and there I found Storm just arrived from Jamaica, and let in by the butler. Oh, joy to all! The inhabitants of Bryngwyn, servants and all, quickly moved about like a swarm of bees to welcome back the kind host—and we were not in bed until 3. Thank God for this.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Altham Archive.

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