BIB_ID
402864
Accession number
MA 2148.73
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1867 January 28.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
City of writing determined from 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.
Envelope addressed to: "George G. Moulton-Barrett Esq./ Reform Club." In RB's hand, to the left of the address: "R Browning." There are no stamps or postmarks. As with the previous letter (see MA 2148.72), RB appears to be writing to George in Rome.
On mourning stationery.
With an engraved crest.
With a seal that matches the crest.
Envelope addressed to: "George G. Moulton-Barrett Esq./ Reform Club." In RB's hand, to the left of the address: "R Browning." There are no stamps or postmarks. As with the previous letter (see MA 2148.72), RB appears to be writing to George in Rome.
On mourning stationery.
With an engraved crest.
With a seal that matches the crest.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Concerning an anthology, "Lyra Elegantiarum", edited by Frederick Locker-Lampson and published by Moxon's, in which forty poems by Walter Savage Landor appeared without the permission of the copyright holder, John Forster; giving George the background on the ill feeling between Forster and James Bertrand Payne (manager of Moxon's), namely that, the year previously, Payne had omitted a dedication to Forster in Barry Cornwall's book "Charles Lamb: A Memoir"; arguing that Payne ought to have warned Locker that it was unlikely that Forster would permit any of his property to appear in a Moxon publication; writing that Forster is sorry that Locker will be injured in this matter, but he has demanded to have all copies of the book withdrawn from bookstores and all the Landor poems removed from future editions; questioning the role of Frederick Chapman (publisher of Landor) in the process and asking whether he might have, unlawfully, given Payne permission to use the poems; sending news of Pen: "Pen has skated diligently while skating-time was"; writing that his book (referring to "The Ring and the Book") is "in the main done--and, I hope, will be off my mind and out of my hands before long"; asking George to send him, if he runs across it, a map of the road between Arezzo and Rome "containing the names of all the little villages by the way,--of the year 1700, a little earlier or later...".
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