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Autograph letter signed : London, to Edward Moxon, "Thursday" [1844 August 8].

BIB_ID
129393
Accession number
MA 4404.2
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
"Thursday" [1844 August 8].
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Viscount Astor, 1975.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 11.2 x 9.2 cm
Notes
Written from "50 Wimpole Street."
Removed from a first edition copy of Casa Guidi Windows: a poem, 1851. (see PML 75151) with three additional autograph letters signed, MA 4404.1, MA 4405 and MA 4406.
Date of writing from published letter cited below.
Housed with a 2nd letter from EBB to Moxon dated 4 August 1844 (MA 4404.1).
The letter refers to the upcoming publication, by Moxon, of EBB's volume of poems.
Summary
Asking for "four copies, or even three, of my poems soon . . before the general issue;" and telling him "...that when the books are ready, in the case of your caring to have at your private disposal a few copies, you must do me honour by accepting what you require."