BIB_ID
283994
Accession number
MA 997.59
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1885 Nov. 30.
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
Informing Knight that he has just returned from Venice where he was unable to fulfill Knight's request to pick out Wordsworth poems because a complete edition of Wordsworth was unavailable; telling him he will select the poems using Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "pencil-marked" edition of Wordsworth to help with his decisions.
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