BIB_ID
283973
Accession number
MA 997.46
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1866 June 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908?
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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).
Written on mourning stationery.
Written on mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Knight Collection, 1908?
Summary
Explaining that he is thinking of leaving Chapman and Hall to publish elsewhere because "a publication from which we were entitled to expect considerable results has proved a comparative failure"; offering to sign an agreement with Chapman and Hall; noting that his income "may be seriously affected by affairs in Italy"; wondering whether he will get back the money he paid out of the printing of his first book to buy steel plates. The letter mentions Isa Blagden.
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