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Robert Browning collection of papers, [1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889).

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Creator

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.

Location

Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Extent

  • 81 items.

Access Restrictions

Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Scope/Contents Notes

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and a portrait photograph. The collectionincludes a portrait photograph of Browning inscribed by Robert Browning, "Paris, October 1862," by an unidentifiedphotographer. The manuscripts consist of holograph poems, notes, and miscellaneous autograph material. Included is aholograph poem by Louise De la Ramé in memory of Robert Browning, a holograph poem by Earl Edward Lytton entitled "To Robert Browning", a holograph review by James Stephensof "The Reader's Browning", and a bound sequence of sonnets on the death of the author by A. C. Swinburne.

The correspondence, dating from 1836 to 1889 includes letters written by the author to Isa Blagden, his son Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, Sophia May Eckley, Una Hawthorne, Leigh Hunt, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Edward Moxon, to Sir John Simeon regarding a pension for William Allingham, to Thomas Talfourd, William Makepeace Thackeray,T. A. Trollope, and to others. Also included are letters, dating from 1859 to 1891, relating to the author between various correspodents including letters from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to W. J. Fox; from Robert W. Barrett Browning to Mrs. Sophia May Eckley and to Alexandra Leighton Orr; and from Alexandra Leighton Orr to Sir Leslie Stephen relating to John Stuart Mill's opinion of Robert Browning's "Pauline." Also present are letters to Browning from Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, John Forster, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, and others, dating from 1840 to 1889.

Biographical/Historical Note

Robert Browning was a British poet. Born on May 7, 1812, Browning wrote his first major work,"Pauline: a fragment of a confession" at the age of twenty. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826 and with her encouragement went on to become one of the major Victorian poets.

Controlled Access Terms

  • Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
  • Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 -- Portraits.
  • Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. The reader's Browning.
  • Allingham, William, 1824-1889.
  • Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
  • Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Pauline.
  • Correspondence.

Additional Creator Names

  • Blagden, Isa, 1816-1873.
  • Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
  • Browning, Robert Wiedemann Barrett, 1849-1912.
  • Eckley, Sophia May.
  • Fox, W. J. (William Johnson), 1786-1864.
  • Hawthorne, Una, 1844-1877.
  • Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.
  • Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895.
  • Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
  • Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858.
  • Ouida, 1839-1908.
  • Orr, Sutherland, Mrs., 1828-1903.
  • Simeon, John, Sir, 1756-1824.
  • Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904.
  • Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
  • Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Sir, 1795-1854.
  • Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
  • Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892.
  • Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) fmo
  • Smith, Harry Bache, 1860-1936. fmo
  • Terry, Roderick T., 1849-1933. fmo
  • Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. fmo
  • Young, Owen D., 1874- fmo

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