BIB_ID
128784
Accession number
MA 3042
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1877 November 23.
Credit line
Gift of Marie Bullock, 1972.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm
Notes
City of writing determined from internal evidence: Browning gives the place of writing as "19. Warwick Crescent, / W." See the online edition of The Brownings' Correspondence and the checklist, cited below, for additional information.
With a blind embossed crest.
A description of the letter on the stationery of the bookseller Alwin J. Scheuer is available in the Collection File.
John Andrew Jennings was the editor of an anthology, The Modern Elocutionist (Dublin: Carson Brothers, [1878]), in which the poems mentioned in this letter appear "by kind permission of Robert Browning." The poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning included in the volume are "The Cry of the Children" and "Cowper's Grave."
With a blind embossed crest.
A description of the letter on the stationery of the bookseller Alwin J. Scheuer is available in the Collection File.
John Andrew Jennings was the editor of an anthology, The Modern Elocutionist (Dublin: Carson Brothers, [1878]), in which the poems mentioned in this letter appear "by kind permission of Robert Browning." The poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning included in the volume are "The Cry of the Children" and "Cowper's Grave."
Provenance
Gift of Marie Bullock (December 20, 1972), along with MA 3040-3067.
Summary
Saying that Jennings may use two of his poems, "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," and two by Elizabeth Barrett Browning for "the purpose you mention"; adding, however, that the poem "Hervé Riel" was published under quite different conditions and "is hardly in my power to give away"; concluding "I only stipulate for correct printing of these four pieces."
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