SD605. Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Octavius Moulton-Barrett

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 347 (in part).

Hope End

April 11th [1827]

Accept my dearest Otte one short but true & heartfelt line on this your birthday; it cannot tell you more than how I love you, unless it dare to add a tale from school … that you are one of those most loved, & that in my daily prayers your name is not forgotten. In those, I pray that you & we not only now, but through eternity, may think of this birthday as “twice blessed.”

From one who loves you even more than strawberries.

Your affecte Henrietta

Address, on integral page: Master Octavius Barrett.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

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