SD1264. Unidentified Correspondent to Edward Moulton-Barrett (father)

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 13, 391 (in part).

Jamaica

July the 18. 1846

My Dear Sir

I take pleasure of addressing you another letter and I do hope that you will not think that the writer have any other object in view but to shew from fact that Mr Robert is not a proper person to be authorney [sic, for authority] upon your property I am happy to say although the first letter Return to him yet good has been the Result I have heard that as soon as he received the letter and found what it was [h]is sleep went away from [h]is eyes the whole night manny [sic] Innocent people was charged to be the writer of the letter and if he ever find out the person who write I am confident that he could not take any legal step for he Knew well that the case has been tried at Rio Bueno Court for selling your cow with Retreat mark & prove to be felony I would mention my name but the enemies it will breed for telling the truth will like the flight of locust even [h]is own Brotherinlaw was a bookkeeper under him at Cambridge abuse him publickly that he will let him heed the consequence of using a hoghead of sugar in |amouth| one part of the pastures on the estate the stock can feed there at all scarcely any Grass but prickles I am certainly shore by what I see in him is evidence enough that he only which [sic, for wish] to make a fortune what I have written I can give dimonstration [sic] for every word, |or else| I will not venture to write for there is a day appointed by the great Judge of the earth when all secret shall brought light–

I Remain A Friend

Address, on integral page: Edw. M. Barrett Esqr / Wimpole Street London / No 50 Cavendish Square.

Docket: July 18. 1846 / Recd Octr 7. 1846 / Jamaica.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Eton College Library.

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