Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : [London], to Richard Hengist Horne, 1843 July 3.

BIB_ID
402948
Accession number
MA 2147.20
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1843 July 3.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp, postmarks and black seal and addressed to "R H Horne Esqr / 36. New Broad Street / City."
Place of writing from postmark.
The entire note with her initials is written on the inside flap of the envelope.
The letter to which EBB refers and a fragment of which she is enclosing to Mr. Horne is letter no. 1307 in the Browning Correspondence cited below. A footnote to the published letter identifies the author as Katherine Cockell.
Summary
Enclosing "a page or two of a letter just received by me from a female friend who has great sensibility for poetry & is in such bad health that she can write only lying down & with a pencil. You will care for her enthusiasm I fancy - & it belongs to you."