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."'
'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Manuscript: Letter
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."'
'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning Manuscript: Letter
