Supporting Documents

SD418.  Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 331 (in part).

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[4 March 1822]

To my dearest Henrietta

On her birthday

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Come forth my lay

To celebrate this happy day

Which brought to us a torment true

But still refrain I can’t from loving you

To thee we must address the best of graces

And adorn you also with sashes and laces

For this day thirteen years ago

You were a little squawling thing you know

But now how different is your form and manner

How different are you altogether

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Many happy returns of your birthday

I am your affectionate

Arabell

Address, on integral page: For / The Queen of the day.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Altham Archive.

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