[1 July 1837]. Browning, Robert to Haworth, Euphrasia Fanny.

              Saturday Morning. 6½ 

Dear Miss Haworth,

If I had an hour at this present down-sitting instead of a poor .. I won’t think how many minutes to write in, I would take out letter by letter your past “favours”-and curiously perk pry and pick out whatever had the air of a question, and answer it absolutely-and write the said answer in the plainest of hands .. fists, rather, as I write hugely when doing my best,-and not a break should there be in the whole three-pages-full-so should I have compassed a perfect letter (for you find fault with nothing else than my forgettings and scrawlings and stoppings short)-and-

Note, I stop short always for a reason .. that I can’t go on: the paragraph at top is meant to flow gracefully into an acknowledgement; and of the gratefullest, of your own communication: All this was to be done, to show my sense of .. to set in a better light how ..? It will be a fine exercise in the higher sort of English-composition if you or your nephew Stuart will contrive a happy anknupfen.

For questions: I firmly believe you wrote those Sonnets-don’t ask me why. At all events I wish you to