Supporting Documents

SD485.  Samuel Moulton-Barrett (brother) to Edward Moulton-Barrett (father)

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 335 (in part).

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May 28th [1824] [1]

To dearest Papa

On his Birthday

O, t’is the twenty eighth of May,

Your happy Birthday!

Even the birds do rejoice,

With their melodious voice.

How happy and grateful I ought to be

To you dear Papa who I’m sure loves me

Almost as much as I do thee.

To Papa and Mama we owe all we have,

For from dangers and miseries they did us save;

But we’ll never be able to do what we ought,

No, no, though our days be longer or short,

And I always shall love dear Papa,

Till we live to reside in a heavenly star.

Your affectionate

Sam

Address, on integral page: To dearest Papa / Farm study.

Docket, in Mary Moulton-Barrett’s hand: May 28th 1824.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Berg Collection.

1. Year provided by docket.

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