BIB_ID
283993
Accession number
MA 997.58
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1885 Aug. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908?
Description
1 item (2 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
Telling Knight he has found the letters and is sending them though he "can hardly think [Knight] will care to make use of them"; undertaking to pick out "the twenty poems which strike [him] as those worthiest of the master" [Wordsworth?]; apologizing for being "absent from the meeting of the Society."
Catalog link
Department