BIB_ID
129363
Accession number
MA 9105.1
Creator
Browning, Frances Coddington, 1853-1935.
Display Date
1890 November 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages); 17.6 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Acquired as part of a large collection of letters addressed to William Angus Knight, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and Wordsworth scholar. Items in the collection have been individually accessioned and cataloged.
Embossed letterhead: "Palazzo Rezzonico." Frances Browning has also given the place of writing as "Venice" below.
Signed "Fanny Barrett Browning."
On mourning stationery.
With cross-writing.
The biography referred to in the letter is Mrs. Sutherland Orr's The Life and Letters of Robert Browning (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1891).
Embossed letterhead: "Palazzo Rezzonico." Frances Browning has also given the place of writing as "Venice" below.
Signed "Fanny Barrett Browning."
On mourning stationery.
With cross-writing.
The biography referred to in the letter is Mrs. Sutherland Orr's The Life and Letters of Robert Browning (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1891).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying that she is writing on behalf of her husband Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, "who is unable to use his eyes"; thanking Knight for his "kindness in respect to the letters placed at Mrs [Alexandra] Sutherland Orr's disposal," for use in preparing her biography of Robert Browning; explaining that her husband asked Mrs. Orr to undertake the biography in order to provide an accurate account of Browning's life: "otherwise it would not have been done, for my dear Father-in-law had a horror of anything of this kind"; writing that they hope to have the pleasure of receiving Knight in Venice someday; adding that they also expect to be in England towards the end of the year.
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