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SD679.  Samuel Moulton-Barrett (brother) & Mary Trepsack to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 361 (in part).

Sunday [9 November 1828] [1]

My ever dearest Henrietta

I recieved [sic] your dear letter on Saturday, and I was sorry to see that you thought I was angry with you for not having written last week, I assure you I was quite otherwise for I know what you must feel when you write to me at this unhappy moment, you must have made a mistake in reading my letter for I assure you it is one of the last things I should think of to say a word at not hearing from you in this unhappy time; I am sure I ought to thank you over and over again for having thought of me so often, at a time when I am sure you have more to think of, pray dearest Henrietta do not trouble yourself in writing to me for I know what trouble it must give you, for now as long as I know you are well I cannot expect more, I promise you to write regularly on Sundays that you may know we are all well here; Dearest Granny I am happy to say is a great deal better—she gives her best love and begs me to tell you not to be uneasy about her; dearest Treppy is quite well except a little stiff neck which came on this morning but it is nothing and I have no doubt will go off as fast as it came. Gran[n]y wishes that when you have any communication with Froster to thank John for a fine hare and Pheasant which arrived here, for her last night brought up by a gentleman. I really am sorry that Gran[n]y has sent for her things from Malvern as I know what pain it must give you to execute such a task, when you lived in such hopes of seeing her and dearest Treppy. but you must hope for the best and live in the hope of seeing them in the Spring as it really is too cold for dearest Gran[n]y to travel now, and she never leaves London in the winter. Give my very best love to all your dear party at Hope-End; and ever remember me your ever

Affectionately attached

Sam.

[Continued in the hand of Mary Trepsack]

As our dear Boy says everything my dear Addles for himself, & Grannys health—there remains nothing for me, but to assure you all, that you are never absent from our thoughts– I am now busy going to pay all the bills for my Cape Commissions which are now gone, we have not heard from Jamaica, but saw a gentlemen who saw them lately & gives a delightful account of them– God bless you all–

Address, in Samuel Moulton-Barrett’s hand, on integral page: Miss H Barrett / Hope-End / Ledbury / Herefordshire.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Altham Archive.

1. Date provided by postmark of 11 November 1828, a Tuesday.

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