Family Theater: By Sun and Candlelight

Family Theater presents, Marino Sullivan, Jean Raymond, and James Gleason. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated brings you Jean Raymond and Marino Sullivan in, by Sun and Candlelight, the love story of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Ferris.

To introduce the drama, your host and narrator, James Gleason. How do I love the... Let me count the ways. So begins a simple and beautiful poem, a love poem. It's part of a great love story.

One that really happened 100 years ago in the England of Queen Victoria, and largely in London in a house on Windpow's Street. But it begins for us several years later in a bill in Italy taken by two travelers from England.

A man and his wife, his knife. A fire is burning in the great. Robert. Oh, hello, Bar. My thoughts must have a tight grip on me tonight. I didn't hear you come in. It's late.

I couldn't sleep. Robert, I... Hmm? No, don't turn around. Keep looking straight ahead. And promise me. Promise me you'll not think made foolish. Bar, what is it? Why can't I think of you if I want to?

Is my foolish bar? or Robert then think of me as foolish, but make me another promise instead. Here, I'll just drop these into your coat pocket. So, now promise me once you've read them through, you'll burn them.

They're in the fireplace. But why? But Robert promise. Promise me. Left alone the man reached into his coat pocket and pulled forth a packet of letters. papers, removing the ribbon that found them, he seated himself by the fire to read them.

And as he read, it was as though she was still in the room with him, a frail hand still trembling on his shoulder, her voice reading to him these poems which tell the story of their love. The love story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Brown.