Supporting Documents

SD378.  Samuel Moulton-Barrett (brother) to Mary Moulton-Barrett

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 324 (in part).

Hope End

May 1. 1821.

To my dearest Mama

On her birthday.

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Your birthday is come,

And we must drink your health with rum,

And eat it with a plum bun,

That will be very nice fun.

My eye I think that is well done.

O dear mama,

I wish you had a little Car,

For fear papa

Should get the gout

And then he could not go out.

That would be a very nice thing to cary him about.

But my dearest Mama

You must not go far

Frome handsome Papa

I must wish you good bye

Because I want to make your pye

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Many many happy returns

Your ugly Sam

Address, on integral page: For the Queen of the day / Who is so very gay.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

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