BIB_ID
283913
Accession number
MA 997.18
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1856 Apr. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908?
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 13.1 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
Expressing happiness that Chapman wants to publish another edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems; discussing whether some of E.B. Browning's new poems should be added to the addition and how much the new edition should cost; describing a "novel in verse" [Aurora Leigh] E.B. Browning is writing; announcing their plan to come to London in June and asking him to speak with [William] Bradbury of Bradbury and Evans before then about printing; stressing that they must see the proofs before a final printing. The letter mentions John Ruskin.
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