Supporting Documents

SD304.  Autograph Manuscript by Edward Moulton-Barrett (brother)

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 320.

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[3 March 1819] [1]

A fragment

T’was morn and the red Sun reflected brilliancy on the eastern sky when sud[d]enly with dreadful majesty an awful cloud advanced while peals of thunder burst and threaten vengeance round and vivid lightning flashed & the tremendous billows as frighted from a sleep arise in awful majesty & foaming beat the shattered shore.

Edward Barrett

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

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Date provided by a copy in Mary Moulton-Barrett’s hand in “Poems by EBB,” ms Berg Collection.

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