Collection of autograph letters signed : London, to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1843-1844.

The Morgan holds Richard H. Horne's first edition copy, in two volumes, of Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Richard H. Horne, London, 1877. This copy contains Horne's autograph on the title page, is from the library of Henry Buxton Forman with his bookplate, contains copies in Forman's hands of two letters from EBB to Horne and is heavily annotated with revisions and additions to the text by Mr. Forman. This copy was presented to Katharine Cornell "on her first birthday as Actor-Manager with love and admiration from 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' co.' and signed by twenty members of the company. The presentation page with signatures is undated. The two copies of letters are found in The Browning Correspondence online as letter no. 788, dated 9 January 1841 and letter no. 2958, dated 24 September 1851. They are also found in the printed volumes of The Browning Correspondence in volume 5, pages 4-6 and volume 17, pages 115-116.
The Morgan holds a collection of 43 autograph letters signed from EBB to Horne written from 1840-1848 (MA 2147.1-45); these are EBB's replies to the Horne letters in this collection. MA 2147 is accompanied by four autograph letters signed from S.R. Townshend Mayer and two autograph letters from Richard Bentley, to Horne, concerning the publication of these letters; also with the agreement for publication dated 1 February, 1876 and a statement of account dated 11 November, 1881.