BIB_ID
128785
Accession number
MA 2454
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
[1840 April 7].
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1966.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.8 x 18.7 cm
Notes
The day and year of writing have been taken from the postmark. See The Brownings' Correspondence: A Checklist, cited below, for additional information.
Browning gives the place of writing as "Hanover Cottage, / Southampton St., / Camberwell." This area is now part of the larger London Borough of Southwark.
Addressed with seal and postmarks to: "Mr William Smith, / 113 Fleet-Street."
Transcription available in the Collection File.
Browning gives the place of writing as "Hanover Cottage, / Southampton St., / Camberwell." This area is now part of the larger London Borough of Southwark.
Addressed with seal and postmarks to: "Mr William Smith, / 113 Fleet-Street."
Transcription available in the Collection File.
Provenance
Purchased from the Philadelphia bookdealer Sessler's, November 1965.
Summary
Telling Smith that Edward Moxon has just published "a long Poem of mine, 'Sordello', meant for a limited class of readers -- and I am on the point of following it up by three new Dramas, written in a more popular style, and addressed to the public at large"; writing that he has learned of Smith's "handsome Reprints" and wondered if he would consider bringing out a new work in his series; proposing terms and format: "I will give you the 1st Edition for nothing -- for the sake of your large circulation among a body to which my works have little access at present. Of course I mean that these Dramas should form one publication, of the same size and at the same low price as your other pamphlets."
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