Supporting Documents

SD606.  Henry Moulton-Barrett to Octavius Moulton-Barrett

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

Hope End

April 11th [?1827]

My dearest fellow

You look very yellow,

Just like the flowers,

That are in the bowers.

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As sweet as the primrose

That in your garden grows

As frisky as a lamb

And very dear to me and Sam

Your affecte Henry Barrett

Address, on integral page: To dearest Octavius.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Wellesley College.

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