BIB_ID
403229
Accession number
MA 8917.8
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
[1819 November].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.9 x 18.5 cm
Notes
The subtitle of the poem is "In 47 lines"; however, this manuscript contains only 39 lines and Donaldson notes (in The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, cited below) that both known versions of this poem are incomplete.
The dating of the manuscript is drawn from The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and based on biographical information about the Moulton-Barrett family's trip to the spa town of Cheltenham.
The paper has been burnt in two places, leading to some loss of text.
The dating of the manuscript is drawn from The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and based on biographical information about the Moulton-Barrett family's trip to the spa town of Cheltenham.
The paper has been burnt in two places, leading to some loss of text.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
A fragment of a poem, beginning "Neglected theme of lyric lore/Thomsons own pure immortal spa...".
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