Supporting Documents

SD265.  Edward Moulton-Barrett (brother) to Mary Moulton-Barrett

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 318 (in part).

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[23 December 1817] [1]

The cheerful season of Christmas is almost arrived when winter will cast his white mantle over the face of the country to him who has a reflecting mind childhood will appear like spring when the seeds of virtue must be sown in the mind Summer when they have sprung up to perfection and Winter resembling old age when grey hairs have brought honor upon your head.

Address, on integral page: Mrs Barrett / Hope End.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Date and author taken from a copy in Mary Moulton’s hand in “Poems by EBB.” ms in Berg Collection.

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