SD1225. Sara Coleridge to John Kenyon

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 10, 330 (in part).

10 C Place

March 18 [1845]

My dear Mr Kenyon

I have written to Miss Barrett, to thank her for her very kind & gratifying gift, & I must thank you too for the part you took toward my having it.

It strikes me that I have written a stupid pompous-sounding note to your cousin. But she will not set this down to pomposity of mind in me, for she will be aware that such as appearance may arise from the little anxiety of a first address to one, who has been for some time known to the writer not as a mere member of society, but as a possessor of remarkable gifts in which the public is concerned.

I hope to see the Athenaeum containing Dr Forbes’ examination of the oracle story this evening, and should like much to see his book hereafter when you can conveniently lend it to us.

Mama thanks you for your kind inquiry about her. She complains much of the cold, but I hope is no the worse for it, and the four winters have done me so much good that I should be glad of a fifth, if I thought only of myself. Such weather as that of last Autumn is what unhinges me. It makes my nerves flaggy as grass is when thunder is coming. I remain

dear Mr Kenyon

Very truly yours

Sara Coleridge

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

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