BIB_ID
402936
Accession number
MA 2148.85
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1888 April 24.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 cm + envelope
Notes
City of writing determined from postmarks and internal evidence; the letter has been written on stationery with the embossed heading: "29. De Vere Gardens./ 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./ 3. Frederick Place,/ Weymouth."
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "George G. Moulton-Barrett, Esq./ 3. Frederick Place,/ Weymouth."
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Enclosing a letter for George from Pen (this letter is no longer with the item); writing that Pen has left for Paris, in order to be there for the opening of the Salon, in which he has two pictures that have received commendations; telling George that Pen has been elected as a member of the Athenæum Club; writing that Frederick Locker-Lampson and Frederic Leighton proposed and seconded him: "I never solicited a single vote: and was pleasantly surprised by seeing what influential names were spontaneously appended to his nomination Card,--no better names in the Club"; mentioning that he had refrained from asking about the result of the vote, and only heard the news at a dinner for Sir John Pender.
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