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Ode on dearest Papa's birthday : autograph manuscript signed : Hope End, Ledbury, 1819 May 28.

BIB_ID
403166
Accession number
MA 8917.6
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1819 May 28.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 32.3 x 20 cm
Notes
Addressed on the verso: "E M Barrett Esqr./ Hope End/ Herefordshire."
With a seal.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
A poem of 26 lines, beginning "Welcome sweet returning gladness/ Welcome foe to grief and sadness....". Written for her father on his 34th birthday.