BIB_ID
402906
Accession number
MA 2148.80
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1875 May 25.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
City of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence; RB gives the place of writing as "19. Warwick Crescent, W." See the published edition of the correspondence and the checklist, cited below, for additional information.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George G. Moulton Barrett Esq./ Reform Club,/ Pall Mall./ S.W."
With a blind embossed crest.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George G. Moulton Barrett Esq./ Reform Club,/ Pall Mall./ S.W."
With a blind embossed crest.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Discussing the poet Alfred Austin's criticisms of his work; writing that Austin has misquoted him, has accused him of plagiarizing from the classical scholar Benjamin Jowett, and has called his work unintelligible; dismissing Austin's criticisms; mocking his height and his pretensions, with quotes from Dickens and Swift; ending the letter: "All this bug-juice from a creature I never saw in my life, and whose scribblings, except when they related to myself, I never read a line of!"
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