BIB_ID
406948
Accession number
MA 9123.3
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
[1865 October 15].
Credit line
Gift of Alice McNinch Landon, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 cm + envelope
Notes
The letter is dated only "Sunday Mg"; the proposed dating of October 15, 1865 is based on the postmark and on internal evidence. See Hudson's notes to the letter in Browning to His American Friends, cited below.
Browning gives the place of writing as "19 Warwick Crescent, / Upper Westbourne Terr: / W."
Written on stationery with embossed crest (lion rampant above shield above motto "Virtute").
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "W. W. Story Esq / Mount Felix, / Walton on Thames." The envelope also has the embossed crest which appears on the stationery.
Salutation: "Dear Story."
Additional provenance information available in the Collection File.
Previously accessioned as MA 3273.
Browning gives the place of writing as "19 Warwick Crescent, / Upper Westbourne Terr: / W."
Written on stationery with embossed crest (lion rampant above shield above motto "Virtute").
Envelope with stamp and postmarks addressed to: "W. W. Story Esq / Mount Felix, / Walton on Thames." The envelope also has the embossed crest which appears on the stationery.
Salutation: "Dear Story."
Additional provenance information available in the Collection File.
Previously accessioned as MA 3273.
Provenance
Part of a collection of materials related to the Storys. Gift of Alice McNinch Landon, 1974.
Summary
Commenting on missing a letter from Story: "The letter reached me at eight o clock last evening -- Had I imagined you were at Chapman's yesterday; why, I passed the shop!"; making arrangements to meet: "Whatever happens, & whether we are to see each other sooner or later -- I am always yours as ever. I begin to see a pin-point of light out at the end of this London Life, -- Italy at the end of a few years more, you know!"; telling Story how much he likes his bust of Elizabeth Barrett Browning ("as I had been frank in confessing my fears, you may depend on the honesty of my wonder & delight") and suggesting that he might use it to illustrate it a forthcoming selection of Barrett Browning's work.
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