BIB_ID
406933
Accession number
MA 9123.1
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
[1862] September 13.
Credit line
Gift of Alice McNinch Landon, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.6 x 10.5 cm
Notes
Browning gives the place of writing as "Chez M. le Maire de Ste. Marie, / près Pornic, Loire Inférieure."
The year of writing is based on internal evidence. See the published edition of the correspondence between Browning and the Storys (cited below) for additional information.
Salutation: "Dearest Friends."
Signed with his initials.
Previously accessioned as MA 3273.
The year of writing is based on internal evidence. See the published edition of the correspondence between Browning and the Storys (cited below) for additional information.
Salutation: "Dearest Friends."
Signed with his initials.
Previously accessioned as MA 3273.
Provenance
Part of a collection of materials related to the Storys. Gift of Alice McNinch Landon, 1974.
Summary
Outlining their traveling plans for the rest of the month; mentioning the "sudden death & illness of our hostess, the Mayor's wife"; describing the sea and the countryside around Pornic; describing their evening activities: "Mrs [Mary Egerton] Bracken strolls with us of an evening -- the two boys [Pen and Willy Bracken] fish and divert themselves. I brought some old books with me, and read odd things in Latin and antique French"; telling William Story about a reference in a classical text to the evil eye; referring to a re-telling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin by Lucas Lossius, "who has simply left out the whole story of the rats and only mentions the spiriting away of the children as a singular instance of the devil's power: he makes him a bagpiper moreover"; asking about the sale of some of Story's statues; writing that he is glad to hear that "the book" (possibly a reference to Story's Roba di Roma) is in hand; sending "Pen's true love with mine to you all -- My father & sister's kind regards, & my complete stupidity all go together."
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