BIB_ID
128821
Accession number
MA 9120
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
[1872 June 19].
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.6 x 13.5 cm
Notes
Browning gives the place of writing as "London, 19. Warwick Crescent, W."
The letter is not dated; the year and date of writing is drawn from the online edition of The Brownings' Correspondence and internal evidence. James Osgood was a Boston publisher who released a number of volumes of Browning's work in the early 1870s.
Previously accessioned as MA 2032.
The letter is not dated; the year and date of writing is drawn from the online edition of The Brownings' Correspondence and internal evidence. James Osgood was a Boston publisher who released a number of volumes of Browning's work in the early 1870s.
Previously accessioned as MA 2032.
Provenance
From the collection of Robert I. Glasgow, acquired by the Morgan Library before 1960.
Summary
Thanking them for a cheque and a letter; discussing the production schedule for a volume of his poems: "I am sorry you expect any inconvenience from the short interval allowed for your publishing, between the time my last sheet reaches you & the time when the book itself could arrive"; asking for copies of one of his books: "be a little generous, & don't grudge a few copies wandering out in the [world] where they will soon be [illegible word] & forgotten. Smith tells me there is little enough to earn your apprehension"; adding "May I take the occasion of saying how truly sorry I was to miss the kind visit of a [illegible word] man I felt anxious to see -- Colonel [Thomas Wentworth] Higginson? He was good indeed to make more than an effort to find me, & I grieve that I was not fortunate enough to be found by him."
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