BIB_ID
298190
Accession number
MA 1325.2
Creator
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860.
Display Date
1846 Sept. 24.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1950.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21 cm + envelope
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; envelope is a paper wrapper.
With postmark and seal; envelope is a paper wrapper.
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
Informing her that she has "decided on travelling southwards" with the Brownings as "Paris is empty and expensive"; commenting on the famine in Ireland and Scotland; referring to the Brownings as "this charming fugitive pair"; noting Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "most feeble state"; saying she thinks she saved Barrett Browning's life by persuading her to rest; offering her opinion of their marriage: "the deportment of both is perfect, but how the experiment is to end I know not. I have not faith in the poetical temperament as a means of permanent happiness, tho it may heighten the relish of sentiment. In short, I fear, ... but I hope also"; giving details of their route to Pisa.
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