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Ode to my dearest Addles on her birthday : autograph manuscript signed : [Hope End, Ledbury], 1821 March 4.

BIB_ID
403244
Accession number
MA 8917.10
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1821 March 4.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to: "Miss H Barrett."
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
A poem of 32 lines, beginning "The Minstrels harp was quickly strung/ And o'er those wires my ready fingers...". Written for her sister Henrietta (addressed by a family nickname, "Addles") on her twelfth birthday.