BIB_ID
283974
Accession number
MA 997.47
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1866 June 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908?
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 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
Telling Chapman that he agrees to the financial terms Chapman proposes and is "quite content with [his] share of the profit"; explaining that American publishers did not pay him properly and he does not know of anything "to prevent an English copy of [his] whole works entering America"; making arrangements to sign a contract with Chapman and Hall.
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