BIB_ID
406213
Accession number
MA 9106.1-6
Creator
Browning, Robert Wiedemann Barrett, 1849-1912
Display Date
1897-1906.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
6 items (18 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
Acquired as part of a large collection of letters addressed to William Angus Knight, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and Wordsworth scholar. Items in the collection have been individually accessioned and cataloged.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
A collection of 6 autograph letters signed, to William Angus Knight; written between 1897 and 1906 from Asolo, Florence, and Cap d'Antibes; discussing critical writing on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, selections of their work and letters as they were being published posthumously, Knight's correspondence with Robert Browning, and the rose that Knight planted at Elizabeth Barrett Browning's tomb. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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