BIB_ID
298219
Accession number
MA 1325.5
Creator
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860.
Display Date
1846 Oct. 15.
Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1950.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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.
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.
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
Reporting that she and the Brownings have arrived in Pisa; noting that the passage by sea was stormy and she "suffered so dreadfully" that she has "not yet recovered"; expressing her concerns about the Brownings and saying, "I have had now & then a tremour at my heart about their future"; calling Browning "the most impractical of men, the most uncalculating, rash, in short the worst manager I ever met with"; discussing her plans to stay in Italy for a month and to find an art instructor for her niece; mentioning Dickens, Harriet Martineau, and others; saying that she has just seen Elizabeth Barrett Browning and is "full of hope for her."
Catalog link
Department