Supporting Documents

SD247.  Unidentified Correspondent to Mary Moulton-Barrett

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 317 (in part).

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1817.

My first is the abode of birds

Who visit us in Winter– My second

is what the Jews detest, & my 3d.

is, where I wish to lie.—

My first is the support of Man.

My second is the End.

And my whole is happiness.

My 1st. is a biped of many feet high

My 2nd. the industrious work of a fly

Or where frauds when discovered in penalty lie

My whole if united, make comfort thereby–

My 1st. is the [illegible word] of his Age

or the terror of the feathered race.

My 2d. is where Flora strays

& my whole is the beautiful abode of taste.

Address, on integral page: To / Mrs Barrett.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

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