BIB_ID
398749
Accession number
MA 13527.21
Creator
Corkran, Henriette Louisa Augusta, 1841-1911.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 23 x 18.5 cm
Notes
"Written some years after".
Henrietta Corkran was the daughter of journalist John Frazer Corkran; the Brownings witnessed the entrance of Napoleon III into Paris on October 16, 1851, from the balcony of the Corkran family.
Part of a collection of manuscripts relating to Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; chiefly autograph fragments from Robert Browning's papers and poems sent to them by their admirers. Select items in the collection have been cataloged individually (see MA 13527.1-27).
Henrietta Corkran was the daughter of journalist John Frazer Corkran; the Brownings witnessed the entrance of Napoleon III into Paris on October 16, 1851, from the balcony of the Corkran family.
Part of a collection of manuscripts relating to Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; chiefly autograph fragments from Robert Browning's papers and poems sent to them by their admirers. Select items in the collection have been cataloged individually (see MA 13527.1-27).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Poem of 49 lines written to commemorate the entrance of Napoleon III into Paris on October 16, 1851, as witnessed by the author as child in the company of Robert and Elizabeth Browning, who were staying with the Corkran family on that occasion.
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