BIB_ID
298187
Accession number
MA 1325.1
Creator
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860.
Display Date
1846 Sept. 22-23.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1950.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 26.9 and 14 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of five letters from Anna Jameson to Lady Noel Byron (MA 1325.1-5) and two letters from Ralph Gordon Noel King, 2nd Earl of Lovelace and grandson of Lady Byron, to Robert Browning (MA 1325.6-7). Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 1325.1-7).
With postmark and seal.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
By descent to Lady Byron's grandson, Ralph Gordon Noel King, 2nd Earl of Lovelace; given by him to Robert Browning in 1873; purchased by James Tregaskis at the Browning sale (Sotheby's London, May 1-6, 1913, lot 228); Curtis Hidden Page.
Summary
Saying she will not leave Paris if there is a possibility that she can be a comfort to Lady Byron; telling her that Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are in Paris and have married; calling them "a pretty pair to go thro this prosaic world together"; explaining the circumstances under which the Brownings ran away together; reporting that they have asked her to join them on their trip to the south; noting that the Brownings are now "under the same roof" with her; giving news of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's health.
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