BIB_ID
283929
Accession number
MA 997.24
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1857 Mar. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908?
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.2 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
Suggesting that a letter "must have miscarried" since Chapman has not sent him the Christmas account he requested two months earlier; asking for information on the new edition of Aurora Leigh -- "how many copies were printed and how many sold"; acknowledging the "Blackwood" and "North British" Chapman sent; discussing the American reception of Aurora Leigh.
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