BIB_ID
129394
Accession number
MA 9122.1
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
[1869 September 28].
Credit line
Gift of Alice McNinch Landon, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 15.7 x 10 cm
Notes
The letter is not dated, but it may have been enclosed with another letter that Browning wrote to her parents William and Emelyn Story on September 28, 1869. Browning had just spent August and September with the Storys, first as the guests of Lady Ashburton at Loch Luichart in Scotland, and then as guests of George Howard, Earl of Carlisle, at Naworth Castle in Cumbria.
Browning gives the place of writing as "19. Warwick Crescent, / Upper Westbourne Terrace, W."
Signed with his initials.
On stationery with the blind embossed device of the Athenæum Club.
See MA 9123.1-6 for a related collection, six letters from Robert Browning to Edith's parents William and Emelyn Story.
Previously accessioned as MA 3273.
Browning gives the place of writing as "19. Warwick Crescent, / Upper Westbourne Terrace, W."
Signed with his initials.
On stationery with the blind embossed device of the Athenæum Club.
See MA 9123.1-6 for a related collection, six letters from Robert Browning to Edith's parents William and Emelyn Story.
Previously accessioned as MA 3273.
Provenance
Part of a collection of materials related to the Storys. Gift of Alice McNinch Landon, 1974.
Summary
Writing that "it is good indeed of you to care about a special word for yourself, when I have told Mr & Mrs Story all the little there is to tell"; describing his return to London; asking after her health; mentioning that he has received a letter from Frederic Leighton's sister (probably referring to Alexandra Orr) saying that "she has no idea where he can be; such licences can some people permit themselves!"; discussing his recent parting from herself and her family: "How stupid one feels at this vile writing after two months' live real talk!"; commenting that he "saw Trevillian (so they pronounce, but probably don't spell it) just now; he is going to be married to-morrow, and struck me as not exuberantly joyful" (probably a reference to George Otto Trevelyan, who married Caroline Needham Philips on September 29, 1869); asking her to write with any news.
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