BIB_ID
398750
Accession number
MA 13527.8
Creator
Browning, Sarianna, 1814-1903.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27 x 21.2 cm
Notes
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).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Writer identified as Sarianna Browning by Gordon Ray in his checklist.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Writer identified as Sarianna Browning by Gordon Ray in his checklist.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Manuscript containing copies of poems in the hand of Sarianna Browning; including 18 lines of poetry addressed to Robert Browning as "Paracelsus", entitled "Poets and flowers: Fourth guess", and a 4 line poem from the same series addressed to Elizabeth Browning, entitled "Poets and flowers: A parting posy", by William Allingham; followed by 44 lines of verse addressed to Robert and Elizabeth Browning by their friend the American sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, "Inscribed with the sincerest regard to R. & E. B. by H.G.H. extracted from an unpublished volume of poems" (first line: "Quaint twins well-mated, will you pardon one").
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