BIB_ID
402953
Accession number
MA 2148.89
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1889 March 29.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
On stationery with the blind 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.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Thanking George for sending him manuscripts connected with EBB; discussing corrections to be made to biographical information in a new edition of EBB's work; adding that he would like to include a drawing of Hope End; writing that he and Arabella had had a photograph of the house made just before it was taken down, but it was "the work of a local photographer,--a poor performance, and already very indistinct in parts", and he would like to supply a better depiction of it; commenting on Ingram's book on EBB, and his lukewarm feelings towards it and its author; writing that he will also contribute an engraving given to him by Mary Trepsack, made from a full-length portrait of EBB as a child done by Charles Hayter; discussing Pen's marriage: "I believe that Pen's most happy marriage is mainly attributed to his being the son of his mother--whom his wife from her girlhood has all but worshipped"; telling George that Pen and Fannie are dedicating Pope Clement XIII's former chapel in Ca' Rezzonico to the memory of EBB.
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