SD688. Samuel Moulton-Barrett (brother) to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 362 (in part).
63 Baker Str.
Friday [Postmark: 13 February 1829]
My ever dearest Henrietta
I recieved [sic] your kind letter yesterday, and as I am determined not to let another day pass without returning you thanks I take up my pen to write you a few lines, but I have no news so you must be satisfied at merely hearing. My Master has just gone, he did not come regularly on account of his ill health, but Granny made me write to say if he did not he must stay away, so he comes now every morning at eight O clock, he has his breakfast here and stays till a little after ten; He told me the other morning that he heard I had a very clever Sister, he heard in Ireland but I could not hear the person he heard it from, he is an Irishman he knows Sir Thomas Butler, and I suppose he heard it from him; do not tell Ba or it will make her quite proud. Mr O Connell arrived here last Monday, but there has been no riots at present—he is to have a dinner given to him to day by Ld Fitzwilliam; and I will be bound there will be a riot but it will soon be put a stop to as there are plenty of constables about, and the soldiers are ordered to be in readiness in case they are wanted. When any of you write to Kin[n]ersley you are to return John thanks for the Brace of Pheasants he sent to Granny, and that they are very sorry they have been such invalids; I suppose Bro was shooting by himself all the time, how many Brace did he kill all the time he was there. Granny has not been so well as I could have wished, but she is a great deal better, the weather is so very much against her, Treppy is quite well, they both send their best loves. Every body in London have colds except me, in Church they cough so much that you can hardly hear the Clergyman. Tell Stormy it is fashionable to wear a large great coat, and perhaps next year it will be fashionable to wear a light one, so he had better not have it altered as he will be unfashionable[.] Give my best love to all, and ever remember me as your affectionately Attached
Sam.
I do not know why I left Charterhouse. Do not shew this letter
Address, on integral page: Miss H Barrett / Hope End / Ledbury / Hereford Shire.
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Armstrong Browning Library, Altham Archive.
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