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To dear Alfred on his birthday : autograph manuscript signed : Hope End, Ledbury, 1823 May 20.

BIB_ID
403267
Accession number
MA 8917.16
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1823 May 20.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.7 x 18.7 cm
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
A poem of 52 lines, beginning "Saith Locke (I think his system answers)/ 'Dreams are the scraps of waking fancies...'". Written for her brother Alfred (who she calls "Daisy", his family nickname) on his third birthday.