BIB_ID
283988
Accession number
MA 997.56
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1884 May 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908?
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.6 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
Apologizing for not speaking at Knight's festival: "I wish I could have overcome my scruples and apprehensions. It is hard to say -- when kind people press one to 'just speak for a minute' -- that the business, so easy to almost anybody, is too bewildering for oneself."
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