BIB_ID
128807
Accession number
MA 4437
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1886 August 21.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1975.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Blue embossed letterhead: "19, Warwick Crescent, / W." Browning has crossed this out and given "Llangollen / North Wales" as the place of writing instead.
The poem referred to in the letter is probably "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"; an edition with illustrations by Greenaway and color printing done by Evans was published in 1888.
The poem referred to in the letter is probably "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"; an edition with illustrations by Greenaway and color printing done by Evans was published in 1888.
Provenance
Acquired from James Lowe Autographs (cat. 6, no. 36), May 1, 1975. Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund.
Summary
Writing that "Miss Kate Greenaway does the Poem to which you refer much honor by proposing to illustrate it"; adding that Evans must apply to Browning's publishers, Smith and Elder, for permission to use the text.
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