BIB_ID
402716
Accession number
MA 2148.49
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1856 August].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 13.2 x 9 cm + envelope
Notes
Year and month of writing determined from internal evidence. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Envelope addressed to: "George G M Barrett Esqre/ 50 Wimpole Street." There are no stamps or postmarks on the letter, suggesting that it may have been written in London, while the Brownings were staying there, and delivered by hand.
Envelope addressed to: "George G M Barrett Esqre/ 50 Wimpole Street." There are no stamps or postmarks on the letter, suggesting that it may have been written in London, while the Brownings were staying there, and delivered by hand.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Writing that she has just remembered that Pen is supposed to go the Zoological Gardens with Ferdinando and Wilson today; asking if George could take care of Pen on another day, "and will you think me very ungrateful (& impudent besides) for making the proposal?"
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