SD313. Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Edward Moulton-Barrett (father)

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 321 (in part).

Hope End

Friday May 28th 1819

My dearest Papa

I hope you will live to have many more of these happy birth-days and I hope that I shall always succeed in pleasing you on your birth-day, for I like to please dearest kind Papa, who is so kind to me. I hope that he will always be happy, and not find any grey hairs amongst his raven locks, for these many birth-days, nor either have any wrinkles in his blooming cheeks for I shall never like to see dearest Papa getting in his old age.

May this little letter do,

My dear Papa, to please you!

I am

your

Affecte Child.

Henrietta B Barrett

Address, on integral page: To the heavenly Papa / with old Harrys love.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

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