Supporting Documents

SD1488.  Emily Tennyson to Henry Sellwood

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 17, 268–269 (in part).

Paris

20 July [1851]

My dearest Daddy,

I have been longing to write to you. …

We have had time for little else but [sightseeing] and unpacking and entertaining or being entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Browning. Whether she thinks being a poet’s wife entitles me to rank with poetesses I know not but she has been extremely kind and even kissed me on parting. They are just come from Florence where they have been living four or five years. We have got valuable hints and promises of assistance from them particularly in the way …

Text: The Letters of Emily Lady Tennyson, ed. James O. Hoge (University Park, Penn., 1974), p. 53.

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