BIB_ID
402946
Accession number
MA 2148.87
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1889 January 21.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.2 cm
Notes
On stationery with the embossed heading: "29. De Vere Gardens./ W." Though no additional place of writing is given, RB is known to have lived at this address in London during the last years of his life. See the published edition of the correspondence and the checklist, cited below, for additional information.
Written in pencil in an unknown hand (possibly George's) at the top of the letter: "I send this for Pen's perusal--I have others like it."
Written in pencil in an unknown hand (possibly George's) at the top of the letter: "I send this for Pen's perusal--I have others like it."
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Thanking George for the loan of letters and manuscripts related to EBB, and returning them: "I feel deeply indeed the interest which attaches itself to the merest scrap of that beloved handwriting, and am perfectly aware of a very general desire on the part of the Public to possess such a collection of letters as you suggest might be made"; discussing his concerns about such a project; writing that, two years earlier, he had destroyed all his letters to his family, but he could not bring himself to destroy EBB's letters: "As for the letters to myself,--and for months before our marriage I received one daily,--these which are so immeasurably superior to any compositions of the kind I have any experience of,--and would glorify the privileged receiver beyond any imaginable crown in the world or out of it--but I cannot, any more than Timon, 'cut my heart in sums--tell out my blood'"; commenting that he wishes that all the letters concerning spiritualism would be burnt; writing that he suffers from the fog and "keep house of an evening all this current month."
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