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Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd: An Additional Letter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

David Bonnell Green
David Bonnell Green*
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Boston University
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Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment
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PMLA , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , March 1961 , pp. 154 - 155
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1961

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References

1 “Twenty Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd,” PMLA, lxv (June 19S0), 397–418; Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Hugh Stuart Boyd, Unpublislted Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Hugh Stuart Boyd, ed. Barbara P. McCarthy (New Haven, 1955).

2 I wish to thank Messrs. John Murray, holders of the Browning copyright, and Mr. R. Norris Williams, 2d, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, which possesses the manuscript, for their permission to publish this letter. For material in the notes, I am indebted to Gardner B. Taplin, The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (New Haven, 1957), Letters of the Brownings to George Barrett, ed. Paul Landis with the assistance of Ronald E. Freeman (Urbana, 1958), and Barbara P. McCarthy, op. cit., as well as to standard works of reference such as DNB, Venn, and Foster. I have tried to reproduce the letter as exactly as possible, but in several instances where the original has one dash above another I have substituted a semicolon.

3 St. Gregory Nazianzen was Boyd's favorite author, and frequent references to him appear in McCarthy.

4 “Understand” is twice underscored in the manuscript. 5 Twice underscored in the manuscript. 6 Psalms cxxvii.l. 7 i John iv.20.

8 Thrice underscored in the manuscript. 9 (d. 1838), Boyd's sister.

10 Ann Henrietta, Boyd's daughter, who in 1837 married Henry William Hayes.

11 Arabella Barrett (1813–68), Elizabeth's favorite sister.

12 Harriet Baynes, third daughter of General Edward Baynes, married Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853) as his second wife, at Malvern, 25 April, 1835.

13 George Barrett Hunter (d.c. 1856) is considered by recent biographers of Mrs. Browning to have been in love with her.

14 Joseph [Christopher] Bradney (c. 1796–1868), of Trinity College, Cambridge; priest 1822; perpetual curate of All Saints', Sidmouth, till 1847.

15 William Jenkins (c. 1784–1856), son of William Jenkins of Sidbury, Devon; Oriel College, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; vicar of Sidmouth from 1821 until his death.

16 Probably Charles Lucas (c. 1805–85), priest 1828; or perhaps Gibson Lucas (c. 1798–1877), priest 1823.