BIB_ID
283892
Accession number
MA 997.14
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1855 Dec. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908?
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 12.8 cm
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).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Knight Collection, 1908?
Summary
Wondering if he received the last letter sent by Mrs. Jameson; asking if Mr. Fields has reimbursed him; wanting to know if the book [probably Browning's Men and women] "continued to do well, & how well"; mentioning that there will be a review of the book in the Revue des deux mondes by a "first-rate man"; mentioning that his wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is unwell.
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