Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October
1846, on receiving her father, brother's, and sisters' responses to her marriage:
'The delay of the week in Paris brought me to the hour of my death warrant at Orleans [...]
Robert brought in a great packet of letters [...] He wanted to sit by me while I read them, but
I would not let him [...] I got him to go away for ten minutes, to meet the agony alone [...]
And besides it was right not to let him read -- -- They were very hard letters, those from
dearest Papa & dearest George [...]
'Now I will tell you -- Robert who had been waiting at the door [...] came in & found me just
able to cry from the balm of your tender words -- I put your two letters into his hands, &
[italics]he[end italics], when he had read them, said with tears in his eyes, & kissing them
between the words -- "I love your sisters with a deep affection -- I am inexpressibly grateful
to them -- It shall be the object of my life to justify their trust as they express it here."'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 26 Sep 1846 and 2 Oct 1846 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Orleans | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Robert Browning |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1812 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett |
Title: | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 17626 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
Vol: | 14 | |
Page: | 13 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Scott Lewis (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1998), 14, p. 13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17626, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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