BIB_ID
403423
Accession number
MA 8917.34
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
[1864 April 29].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Date of writing determined from the postmark and internal evidence: RB gives the date of writing as "Friday", and the 29th fell on a Friday in April of that year. Place of writing also determined from postmarks and internal evidence. See the checklist of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "Robt. W. Barrett Browning Esq./ care of Harry Moulton Barrett Esq./ Combe Head/ near Tiverton,/ North Devon."
With an engraved crest.
Browning calls his son by his nickname, "Pen".
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "Robt. W. Barrett Browning Esq./ care of Harry Moulton Barrett Esq./ Combe Head/ near Tiverton,/ North Devon."
With an engraved crest.
Browning calls his son by his nickname, "Pen".
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Mentioning a concert he will be going to later in the day; describing the weather; telling Pen that he had seen Lady Ely the day before and she "told me many interesting things about Garibaldi, all to his praise: there was evidently not a word of truth in his being ill--they wanted him away because of this Congress"; sending news of friends and family members, including Arabella, Anne Egerton-Smith, her sister Mrs. William Bracken, and the Brackens' son, Willy (a friend of Pen's); sending his "truest love & thanks" to Henry and Amelia Moulton-Barrett; adding that he will write one more letter to him at Stoke, since "no post goes out on Sunday night, you know."
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