BIB_ID
129426
Accession number
MA 2147.1-45
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1840-1848.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows and Thomas Orchard, 1963.
Description
45 items (213 pages), unbound ; various sizes
Notes
MA 2147.20 is written on the inside of an envelope and encloses a fragment of a letter from Katharine Cockell; MA 2147.22 has a pen and ink portrait of EBB's dog "Flush"; MA 2147.27 is from EBB to John Kenyon; MA 2147.33, MA 2147.37, MA 2147.39 and MA 2147.41 are fragments of letters.
This collection includes an autograph envelope (MA 2147.45) postmarked Torquay, July 25, 1841. The letter which was originally with this envelope is part of the W.L. Lewis Collection at Texas Christian University, is published in The Browning Correspondence online as letter no. 831 and in the printed book in volume 5, pages 86-88.
The Morgan holds 2 autograph letters signed with initials from EBB to Horne dated 29 December 1843 and 29 January 1844 respectively acquired separately. They are bound with two poems by EBB and cataloged as MA 625.5 and MA 625.6. The Morgan also holds an autograph letter signed with initials from EBB to Horne, dated 21 July 1844, acquired separately and cataloged as MA 2200.
The Morgan holds Richard H. Horne's first edition copy, in two volumes, of Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Richard H. Horne, London, 1877. This copy contains Horne's autograph on the title page, is from the library of Henry Buxton Forman with his bookplate, contains copies in Forman's hands of two letters from EBB to Horne and is heavily annotated with revisions and additions to the text by Mr. Forman. This copy was presented to Katharine Cornell "on her first birthday as Actor-Manager with love and admiration from 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' co.' and signed by twenty members of the company. The presentation page with signatures is undated. The two copies of letters are found in The Browning Correspondence online as letter no. 788, dated 9 January 1841 and letter no. 2958, dated 24 September 1851. They are also found in the printed volumes of The Browning Correspondence in volume 5, pages 4-6 and volume 17, pages 115-116.
The Morgan holds a collection of 68 autograph letters signed from Horne to EBB dated 1843-1844 (MA 3449.1-68); these are Horne's replies to EBB's letters in this collection.
This collection includes an autograph envelope (MA 2147.45) postmarked Torquay, July 25, 1841. The letter which was originally with this envelope is part of the W.L. Lewis Collection at Texas Christian University, is published in The Browning Correspondence online as letter no. 831 and in the printed book in volume 5, pages 86-88.
The Morgan holds 2 autograph letters signed with initials from EBB to Horne dated 29 December 1843 and 29 January 1844 respectively acquired separately. They are bound with two poems by EBB and cataloged as MA 625.5 and MA 625.6. The Morgan also holds an autograph letter signed with initials from EBB to Horne, dated 21 July 1844, acquired separately and cataloged as MA 2200.
The Morgan holds Richard H. Horne's first edition copy, in two volumes, of Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Richard H. Horne, London, 1877. This copy contains Horne's autograph on the title page, is from the library of Henry Buxton Forman with his bookplate, contains copies in Forman's hands of two letters from EBB to Horne and is heavily annotated with revisions and additions to the text by Mr. Forman. This copy was presented to Katharine Cornell "on her first birthday as Actor-Manager with love and admiration from 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' co.' and signed by twenty members of the company. The presentation page with signatures is undated. The two copies of letters are found in The Browning Correspondence online as letter no. 788, dated 9 January 1841 and letter no. 2958, dated 24 September 1851. They are also found in the printed volumes of The Browning Correspondence in volume 5, pages 4-6 and volume 17, pages 115-116.
The Morgan holds a collection of 68 autograph letters signed from Horne to EBB dated 1843-1844 (MA 3449.1-68); these are Horne's replies to EBB's letters in this collection.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows and Thomas Orchard, 1963.
Summary
A collection of 43 autograph letters signed from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Richard Hengist Horne discussing their collaboration in 1843 and 1844 on Horne's "A New Spirit of the Age, a two-volume collection of critical and biographical essays, one autograph letter signed from EBB to John Kenyon and one autograph envelope to R.H. Horne. The collection includes 13 letters written from Torquay in 1840 and 1841, one autograph envelope, without the letter, from Torquay dated July 25, 1841, 28 letters written from London between November 1841 and September 1845 and two letters, written in 1846 and 1848 from Pisa and Florence respectively. Letters in the collection have been described individually in forty-four separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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