Supporting Documents

SD447.1.  Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Charles John Moulton-Barrett

Addendum to The Brownings’ Correspondence, vol. 1.

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[28 December 1822] [1]

To dearest Stormy

On his birthday

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Oh hail Decembers frosty face

Hail dear Stormy’s birth

For it is innocent as the day

Then fell our hearts with mirth

Come draw your chairs around the fire

Fill bumpers with cider of Herefordshire

And let us drink the health of Stormy dear

Who is beloved by all who’re here

Yes dearest Storm we love you well

How much indeed I need not tell

Then still continue pitying the poor

And we will love you much the more[.]

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Stormy’s affecte Addles.

Address, on integral page: dearest Storm / at the breakfast table.

Docket, in Mary Moulton-Barrett’s hand: 1822.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Eton College Library.

1. Day provided by reference to Charles John’s birthday; month provided by Henrietta; and year provided by docket.

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