BIB_ID
283991
Accession number
MA 997.57
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1885 Apr. 19.
Credit line
Gift of Roland Thaxter, 1925.
Description
1 item (2 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).
The poem included in the letter begins "Thou, whom these eyes saw never, say friends true" and ends with "Help me with knowledge -- for Life's Old, Death's New!" It was used as the epitaph on Levi Thaxter's tombstone.
The poem included in the letter begins "Thou, whom these eyes saw never, say friends true" and ends with "Help me with knowledge -- for Life's Old, Death's New!" It was used as the epitaph on Levi Thaxter's tombstone.
Summary
Expressing his love for "the memory of [Thaxter's] father," Levi Thaxter; sending 7 lines of poetry; asking him to tell his mother, Celia Thaxter, that he considers her "as a dear daughter rather than mere acquaintance after the worldly fashion."
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