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SD395.  Edward Moulton-Barrett (brother) to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 328 (in part).

[Gloucester]

August. 1821.

My dearest Henrietta

According to promise I sit down to write you a line, to tell you of dearest Ba’s illness to day, she is certainly bett<er> her po<or pu>lse is more regular and her spirits very good[.] she has been free from pain to day except during her spasms the first of which was very long, three hours all but a quarter, though mild, the second sixty four minutes and as mild the paroxism of the last was particularly so, the third has not yet come on[.] I will write again soon, pray write to me believe me your affectionate.

Bro.

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

Publication: BC, 1, 328 (in part).

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Altham Archive.

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