BIB_ID
402913
Accession number
MA 2147.15
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[circa 1842 June].
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 10.8 x 8.9 cm
Notes
Date and place of writing from footnote to the published letter cited below.
EBB has written the word "March" three times across the top of the letter, each time in a different script.
This letter is housed with an envelope postmarked June 6, 1842. There appears to be no envelope accompanying this letter. The envelope has been described in The Browning Correspondence cited below as no. 971 and can be found in the print version in Volume 6, p. 7. The envelope is docketed in Horne's hand "Tennyson meeting Miss Martineau - Mitford."
EBB has written the word "March" three times across the top of the letter, each time in a different script.
This letter is housed with an envelope postmarked June 6, 1842. There appears to be no envelope accompanying this letter. The envelope has been described in The Browning Correspondence cited below as no. 971 and can be found in the print version in Volume 6, p. 7. The envelope is docketed in Horne's hand "Tennyson meeting Miss Martineau - Mitford."
Summary
Expressing her frustration concerning a copyright dispute Miss Mitford is having; saying "And it does seem to me monstrous (law or not law) that a copyright given to a certain periodical sh'd be made to serve in another & without leave asked!! Why by the same reason, Mr. Colburn may print pretty little books every two years, out of the salient articles contributed to his new monthly magazine!!! Why, by the same reason, . . & if all our copyrights belong to Mr. March, neither Miss Mitford nor anyone of us can have a right to re-publish a word we put into Finden, . . even though Mr.. Colburn sh'd offer us a guinea a letter for it!;' asking if he knows Mr. Browning; adding "I do not - but I respect his powers enough to feel some regret that he sh'd wait as patiently at the stage door as if Apollo & Mr. Macready were one & the same;" asking, in a postscript, if there is a railway to his "forest at Epping? & how & where is it to be reached? Do tell me - Not that I am going there!!"
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