SD724. Memorandum by Hugh Stuart Boyd
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 2, 367.
[Malvern]
25 May – 8 November 1830
Continuation of the Journal of Miss Barrett coming to Woodland Lodge.–
May 25th 1830. She paid me a morning visit, and went on with the Agamemnon. She went down to v. 385, and did it extremely well. June 7th. She spent the day with us, did some more of Agam. She went down to v. 439. June 17th she came to breakfast, and spent the day with us. She went down to v. 571, and did it extremely well. July 10th, she paid us a long visit, but did not read any Greek. August 7th, she paid us a long visit, but did not read any Greek. August 18th, She paid us a long visit, & went on with the Agam. down to v. 637. August 24th, she came but read no Greek. Septr. 1st, she came, but read no Greek. Septr 20th, she came to stop with us for some days. Sept 21st, She went on with the Agam. down to v. 848; that is 211 lines in one day. Sept. 22nd She read down to v. 1036, that is 188 lines. Sept. 23. 1179. Sept. 24 1332. Sept 25. 1482—Sept 27. to the end of the Play. That is, very nearly 200 lines on that day. She therefore read rather more than 1000 lines in six days. Octr 7th She returned home. After finishing Agam. she read some passages in Chrysostom, Gregory, and Basil, which altogether was rather more than twelve hundred lines. She therefore read during her visit somewhat more than 2200 lines. Octr 23rd, She paid me a long visit, and read some of Gregory’s first Invective against Julian. Nov 1st & Nov 8 She paid me a visit, but did not construe any Greek.
Publication: George S. Hellman, “Some Unpublished Papers of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 132 (March 1916), p. 531.
Manuscript: Scripps College.
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