Supporting Documents

SD1412.  Unidentified Correspondent to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 290 (in part).

[London]

April 5th [1850] [1]

My dear Henrietta–

I am sure I need not assure you that my earnest Prayers will be offered for your Happiness & I hope from time to time you will let me have a Line, remembering that if you do not write I shall know nothing about you– Accept the Trifle I send with my kindest love to purchase some little remembrance hereafter of your

Very Affte & sincere

A |I| S.

My dear Girl improves slowly, quite as rapidly as we ought to expect after so severe an Illness–

I know how busy you must be—do not trouble yrself to send any answer.

Address: Miss Barrett / 50 Wimpole Street.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Altham Archive.

1. Year provided by the reference to Henrietta’s forthcoming marriage.

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