BIB_ID
195785
Accession number
MA 7346.2
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[ca. 1845 Apr. 26].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 11.1 x 9.3 cm + envelope
Notes
With postmark, seal, and stamp; place of writing is from postmark ("Marylebone").
The letter is dated "Monday morning," however the accompanying envelope is postmarked Apr. 26, 1845, a Saturday; presumably this letter was written near this postmark date. Browning sent Miss Thomson a letter on May 16, 1845 that references the topics in this letter.
Part of a collection of 4 letters of the Brownings and 3 prints. Items in the collection are described in separate records (MA 7346.1-7).
The letter is dated "Monday morning," however the accompanying envelope is postmarked Apr. 26, 1845, a Saturday; presumably this letter was written near this postmark date. Browning sent Miss Thomson a letter on May 16, 1845 that references the topics in this letter.
Part of a collection of 4 letters of the Brownings and 3 prints. Items in the collection are described in separate records (MA 7346.1-7).
Provenance
Sale (American Art Association, 5 Dec. 1934, lot 50); from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Sending her "answers to [Miss Thomson's] letter"; mentioning a "notice of Ariadne" and observing that "Bacchus and Ariadne in the Naxos scene are treated of at large by a Greek poet of the fifth century ... called Nonnus, in his Dionysiaca"; saying that she has translated "nearly the best" passages from that poem; discussing passages about Aurora; noting that she used Greek instead of Roman names for the gods; mentioning Euripedes.
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