BIB_ID
298213
Accession number
MA 1325.4
Creator
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860.
Display Date
1846 Oct. 7 and 9.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1950.
Description
1 item (6 p., with address) ; 20.4 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
Discussing Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poor health and her difficulties in traveling; praising Barrett Browning's patience and "unselfish sweetness"; noting that the Brownings' "graceful propriety" is serving as a good example for her niece Gerardine; describing Avignon and mentioning that it does not match [Charles] Dickens' account of it; expressing her belief that in Dickens' description "some ... things are so exaggerated or at least are seen under so peculiar an aspect as to make [her] distrust him as a describer"; telling Lady Byron that she misses her; commenting on the famine in Ireland.
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