Supporting Documents

SD841.  Edward Moulton-Barrett (father) to Samuel Moulton-Barrett (uncle)

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 3, 335 (in part).

The City

Decemr 6. 1837.

My dearest Sam

Inclosed is a Bill of Lading for 4 Cases containing your Windsor Chairs, the Clock & some Books all of which I hope will meet your approbation– Captn Parent has also a small parcel which has in it, the British Almanacks & |three| Comic An<…> the latter of which I trust will exhert a smile <from> you– If you want the Chairs at the Bay, Captn Parent <will> send them, when the [sic] forwards supplies for that Port– The Clock you can get in your way through to St Anns– I could not get a ship for Montego Bay– These are the last things of the order you sent me to execute. I trust those by the Garland Grove are arrived & meet your approbation– The Bricks will go by Selby, who sails the end of Decemr I could not forward them before as no ship would take them on your terms– My hand is so cold that I can hardly write; I envy you your Sun just now–

Yrs most affectionately

E M Barrett

Address, on integral page: S. M. Barrett Esqre / Cinnamon Hill / Little River / St James’s / Jamaica.

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: Eton College Library.

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