SD1438. Edmund Peel to Catherine Bradshaw

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 299 (in part).

Bonchurch, Isle of Wight

June 21, 1850

My dear Mrs. Bradshaw

Tennyson is married! that event was made known to me two days ago by Mr. Forster in the following words …

Alfred’s wife has had indifferent health, and indeed (like the lady Browning married) has passed half her life hitherto on the sofa—but marriage is often a restorer; at least has proved so in Miss Barrett’s case, and may be expected to be no less so in this. …

Publication: The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, ed. Cecil Y. Lang & Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., 1981–90), 1, 328–329.

Manuscript: R.H. Taylor Collection.

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