BIB_ID
283806
Accession number
MA 625.3
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1854 Mar. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 13.5 cm
Notes
Bound in a volume that includes a poem by E.B. Browning, a poem by Robert Browning, four letters from E.B. Browning and Robert Browning, and a print of E.B. Browning (described individually as MA 625.1-7).
Includes six lines written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the bottom of p. 2.
The letter is to Edward Chapman of the publisher Chapman and Hall.
Includes six lines written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning at the bottom of p. 2.
The letter is to Edward Chapman of the publisher Chapman and Hall.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Chicago bookdealer Walter M. Hill, Apr. 1909.
Summary
Explaining that he and Elizabeth Barrett Browning would like him to print 300 cheap copies of two poems they have written for Elizabeth's sister, Arabella Barrett, to sell at a bazaar to support the "ragged schools" in London.
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