BIB_ID
402844
Accession number
MA 2148.72
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1866 October 19.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
City of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence; RB gives the place of writing as "19. Warwick Crescent,/ Upper Westbourne Terrace, W." See the published edition of the correspondence and the checklist, cited below, for additional information.
On mourning stationery.
With an engraved crest.
On mourning stationery.
With an engraved crest.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Writing that he is glad that George likes the monument designed by Frederic Leighton and erected on EBB's grave at the English Cemetery in Florence; commenting that, from the photographs of it, it looks as if Leighton's work has been well-executed, and that he hopes to see it in person some day; writing that he is flattered by George's suggestion of having William Wetmore Story make a bust of RB, as a companion bust to one of EBB that Story had made from memory after her death; mentioning that he has just returned from a trip to Brittany with Pen and his sister Sarianna: "It is wild and solitary enough, with good bathing and wonderful air scented with the salt-pits which fill the country"; relaying Pen's thanks for George's messages and also for the Italian newspapers (RB appears to be writing to George in Rome); reporting on the progress of Pen's studies and his preparations for exams.
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