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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-61)
Two autograph letters signed ("Elizabeth B. Browning") and ("Elizabeth Barrett Browning") to Mr. Powers, together 3 pages, small 8°, [n.p., n.d.].
The first letter commencing: "I returned yesterday the book you were so kind as to lend us, but I omitted to ask you to lend us some more as you promised once - will you? ... I was sorry not to be able to see you when you called. I have been shut up from everybody and quite unwell. Now, however, I am much better, thank God, and revived by the milder weather."
In the second letter, Barrett Browning declines an invitation on her husband's behalf due to ill health, continuing: "And you will come to see me sometime, won't you? I know you take me for a vile coward in matters of infection - but "looking rough" is not carried by a third person, and I am not vile enough to be afraid of quite nothing ... which is the amount of my bravery ..." (2)
Two autograph letters signed ("Elizabeth B. Browning") and ("Elizabeth Barrett Browning") to Mr. Powers, together 3 pages, small 8°, [n.p., n.d.].
The first letter commencing: "I returned yesterday the book you were so kind as to lend us, but I omitted to ask you to lend us some more as you promised once - will you? ... I was sorry not to be able to see you when you called. I have been shut up from everybody and quite unwell. Now, however, I am much better, thank God, and revived by the milder weather."
In the second letter, Barrett Browning declines an invitation on her husband's behalf due to ill health, continuing: "And you will come to see me sometime, won't you? I know you take me for a vile coward in matters of infection - but "looking rough" is not carried by a third person, and I am not vile enough to be afraid of quite nothing ... which is the amount of my bravery ..." (2)