SD2031. Emily Tennyson to Thomas Woolner
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 264 (in part).
Farringford,
24 December 1856
Dear Mr. Woolner,
This is Christmas Eve and the first in our own house. …
I thought the Brownings had been poor or I should not so much have rejoiced over their acquisition of money. I think it is a bad thing to get into the habit of over-prizing wealth, whether for one’s self or others, and it seems an overprizing to desire more than food and raiment and Farringford. …
Publication: The Letters of Emily Lady Tennyson, ed. James O. Hoge (University Park, Penn., 1974), pp. 107–108.
Manuscript: Tennyson Research Centre.
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