Supporting Documents

SD531.  Arabella Moulton-Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 1, 337 (in part).

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To my dearest George

On his birthday

July 15th 1825

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Come Apollo come, raise thy strain,

Let me hear thy voice again.

Let’s celebrate this jovial day,

In happiness & in play,

In every thing thou dost desire.

Come Muses come, and strike thy lyre.

But dearest George, I have not yet expressed

To you, for whom I bear such interest,

My love, my friendship, & my wishes true,

Now that is what I bear for you.

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Many happy returns of your birthday, dearest George, may every blessing attend you, & may you increase daily in knowledge and wisdom, as the sincere, and true wish, of Your affectionate

Sister Arabel.

Address, on integral page: Master George Barrett / Breakfast table.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Gordon E. Moulton-Barrett.

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