BIB_ID
283928
Accession number
MA 997.23
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1857 Jan. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908?
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 13.3 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).
The bottom of the first page has been cut off; 4 or 5 lines are missing from p. 1-2.
The bottom of the first page has been cut off; 4 or 5 lines are missing from p. 1-2.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Knight Collection, 1908?
Summary
Asking him to send the account for his books and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "at the earliest possible moment"; wondering how E.B. Browning's new edition of poems is selling; reporting that Ruskin wrote to him and called Aurora Leigh "the greatest poem in the English language"; asking him to send copies of Aurora Leigh.
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