BIB_ID
283889
Accession number
MA 997.12
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1855 Oct. 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908?
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 13.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a collection that includes 66 letters written by Robert Browning, many of them addressed to his publisher, and two prints; items are described individually in 68 records (MA 997.1-68).
The letter continues on the inside of the envelope.
With postmark; the postage stamp appears to have been cut out of the envelope.
The letter continues on the inside of the envelope.
With postmark; the postage stamp appears to have been cut out of the envelope.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Knight Collection, 1908?
Summary
Discussing an American named Mr. Fields whose letter Chapman forwarded to Browning; asking about sales of his book; mentioning some errors in the printed book and providing corrections; giving a list of people to whom Chapman should send the book, including Miss Arabella Barrett, John Kenyon, Edward Moxon, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Rossetti, and John Ruskin.
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