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 Machine readable finding aid created 2006. Description is in English Berg Coll MSS Browning, RGuide to the Robert Browning collection of papers,[1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889) The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature The New York Public LibraryNew York, New York The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. New York Public Library. Room 320. Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018-2788 (212) 930-0802 brgref@nypl.org http://nypl.org/research/chss/spe/brg/berg.html Staff 2006 Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider Processed and encoded through a gift from Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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 Descriptive Summary Robert Browning collection of papers, [1835?]-1933 bulk ([1835?]-1889) Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 Berg Coll MSS Browning, R81 items The New York Public Library. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
New York, New York
 This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and a portrait photograph. Subjects Personal Names Ouida, 1839-1908. Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.Blagden, Isa, 1816-1873.Browning, Robert Wiedemann Barrett, 1849-1912.Eckley, Sophia May.Hawthorne, Una, 1844-1877.Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895.Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858.Simeon, John, Sir, 1756-1824.Talfourd, Thomas Noon, Sir, 1795-1854.Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892.Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.Fox, W. J. (William Johnson), 1786-1864.Orr, Sutherland, Mrs., 1828-1903.Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904.Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup), former owner.Young, Owen D., 1874- former owner.Terry, Roderick T., 1849-1933, former owner.Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, former owner.Smith, Harry Bache, 1860-1936, former owner. Subjects Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. Pauline.Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 -- Portraits.Browning, Robert, 1812-1889. The reader's Browning.Allingham, William, 1824-1889.Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873. Document Types Correspondence Administration Information Source

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Custodial History

The bulk of the materials was formerly owned by W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. Some of the materials came to the Berg Collection with the Moulton-Barrett papers. The holograph of "Epps" is accompanied by Roderick Terry's bookplate; De la Ramee's holograph poem with Carl Van Vechten's bookplate; and the letters to Edward Dowden and to Leigh Hunt with Harry Bache Smith's bookplate.

 Access

Collection is restricted to qualified scholars and researchers through the Office of Special Collections, Room 316

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

 Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

 Biography

Robert Browning was a British poet. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826

 Scope and Content Note

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and a portrait photograph. The collection includes a portrait photograph of Browning inscribed by Robert Browning, "Paris, October 1862," by an unidentified photographer. The manuscripts consist of holograph poems, notes, and miscellaneous autograph material. Included is a holograph poem by Louise De la Ramee in memory of Robert Browning, a holograph poem by Earl Edward Lytton entitled "To Robert Browning", a holograph review by James Stephens of "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.

Series Descriptions Manuscripts Manuscripts written by Browning Manuscript box "And as I wandered by those happy shores" ms. 2 p.

Signed "Felix Moscheles" in Browning's hand. Accompanied by the original version by Moscheles in an explanatory note in his hand, dated March 7, 1889. 1 p.; Accompanied by: Browning, R. ALS to Felix Moscheles. [London] Aug. 4, 1883. H.

Manuscript box Autograph material, miscellaneous. 1 p. with various types of handwriting, 1 envelope with signature dated April 14, 1887; one signature with holograph excerpt from Pippa Passes, 1 envelope addressed to Mary M. Daniels 1887 May 14 ms. 4 items

Signed. H.; Y.

Epps. Holograph 1886 Jan. 6 ms. 3 p.

Roderick Terry bookplate. H.

Manuscript box "God bless my own Ba." Holograph note [1861 July] ms. 1 p.

Signed with initials. Came with the Moulton-Barrett papers

Holograph notes, headed "Wordsworth" ms. 1 item

H.

Manuscript box [How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix, stanzas 9-10]. Holograph copy n.d. ms. 1 p.

H.

Manuscript box In memoriam Johannis Conington. Holograph copy of the last 14 lines of "A grammarian's funeral" 1869 Nov. 1 ms. 1 p.

Signed. Y.

Manuscript box "Sipping grog one day at sea." Unpublished holograph poem n.d. ms. 1 p.

Y.

Manuscripts related to Browning Manuscript box Browning, [--?]. "F. M. B. Obt 4 Nov., 1847 at Leipsic Age 39 years." Manuscript poem in Sarianna Browning's hand. Two words, "at Leipsic" supplied by Robert Browning(?) n.d. ms. 1 p. Manuscript box Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Holograph notes, unsigned [Florence, June? 1861] 2 l. with Robert Browning's ms. note on back: "Found inside a letter from Ruskin" ms. [1 item]

Signed "RBB"; Ruskin, John. ALS to E. B. Browning. [London] May 13 [1861]. Y.

Manuscript box De la Ramee, Louise. Florence: 1321-1889. Holograph poem. In memory of Robert Browning 1890 Jan. 11 ms. 4 p.

Signed "Ouida"; Carl Van Vechten bookplate

Manuscript box Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of. To Robert Browning. Holograph poem 1854 ms. 3 p.

Signed. With holograph quotation, signed, undated. 1 p. Came with the Moulton-Barrett papers

Stephens, James. [Review of The reader's Browning, selected and edited by Walter Graham]. Holograph 1933 Sept. 1 ms. 7 p.

Accompanied by ALS to Mr. Heck, Sunday, Sept. 1933, enclosing the review. 1 p. H.

Oversize (+) Swinburne, A. C. [A sequence of sonnets on the death of Robert Browning]. Holograph. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. 1889 Dec. 13 - Dec. 15 ms. 1 item

B.

Correspondence Outgoing Correspondence Manuscript box Academy. ALS to the editor of 1885 Aug. 10 corr. Out 2 p.

Encloses: Coleridge, S. T. Sketch of a conversation between Coleridge and Kenyon. Galley proof with Robert Browning's ms. corrections. Y.

Manuscript box Bentley, Geo. ALS to. Mentions Margaret L. Woods' A village tragedy. 1887 Sept. 9 corr. Out 1 item

B.

Manuscript box [Blagden], Isa. ALS to [1868] Aug. 28 corr. Out 2 item

H.

[Blagden], Isa. ALS to 1866 May 19 corr. Out 2 item

H.

Manuscript box Browning, Reuben. ALS to [n.d.] corr. Out 3 p. In case with: Browning, R. Ferishtah's fancies. London, 1884. Copy 1 [Browning], [Robert Wiedemann Barrett]. ALS to 1889 June 19 corr. Out 1 item

H.

In case with: Browning, R. Jocoseria. London, 1883. Copy 1 [Browning], [Robert Wiedemann Barrett]. ALS to 1889 Mar. 6 corr. Out 1 item [Browning], [Sarianna]. ALS to 1861 Aug. 2 corr. Out 1 item

H.

Manuscript box Cartwright, Sir William. ALS to [n.d.] corr. Out 3 p.

Y.

Manuscript box Chapman, Edward. ALS to [n.d.] corr. Out 3 p. Inserted in his: Dramatis personae. Proof copy with poet's ms. corrections. [London, 1864] Conway, Moncure D. ALS to 1864 Apr. 26 corr. Out 1 p. Oversize (+++). Inserted in: Browning, Robert. The pied piper of Hamelin. London, 1880 Cook, [Jane E.]. Photostat of ALS from Robert Browning to [18]79 Dec. 12 corr. Out 1 p.

B.

Oversize (+++). Inserted in: Browning, Robert. The pied piper of Hamelin. London, 1880 Cook, Mrs. [Jane E.]. AN in the third person to [18]81 Dec. 26 corr. Out 1 p.

B.

Manuscript box Corkran, [--?]. ALS to. Mentions Edward Chapman and John Forster 1863 Feb. 20 corr. Out 1 item Manuscript box Cornish, Mrs. Blanche Warre Ritchie. ALS to 1872 Nov. 24 corr. Out 3 p.

Published in New Letters, p. 209. H.

[Dowden], [Edward]. ALS to 1866 Mar. 5 corr. Out 1 item

Harry Bache Smith bookplate. H.

Manuscript box Eckley, Mrs. Sophia May. 9 ALS to. 7, Le Havre, Siena, London, Aug. 19, 1858-Dec. 4, 1869; 2, London, undated 1858 Aug. 19 - 1869 Dec. 4 corr. Out 9 folders

H.

Inserted in his: The Pied Piper of Hamelin. London, Glasgow and New York [1888?]. Copy 1 [Greenaway], [Kate]. ALS to 1884 July 19 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Grove, Sir George. ALS to 1876 Feb. 4 corr. Out 3 p.

Published in New Letters, p. 231. H.

Manuscript box Hawthorne, Una. ALS to 1872 June 26 corr. Out 3 p.

H.

Hewitt, Mrs. ALS to 1869 July 13 corr. Out 1 item

H.

Hunt, Leigh. ALS to [n.y.] Aug. 20 corr. Out 1 item

Harry Bache Smith bookplate. H.

Manuscript box Landor, [Walter Savage]. ALS to 1846 June 25 corr. Out 1 item

H.

Manuscript box [Lehmann], Alma. ALS to 1889 July 6 corr. Out 1 item

H.

Inserted in his: Paracelsus. London, 1835. Copy 1 Locker-[Lampson], Frederick. ALS to 1869 Apr. 13 corr. Out 1 item Inserted in: Browning, R. Strafford. London, 1837. Copy 3 Macready, W[illiam] C[harles]. ALS to 1836 May 28 corr. Out 1 p. Manuscript box Moscheles, Felix. ALS to 1883 Aug. 4 corr. Out 1 p.

With his: "And as I wandered by those happy shores." Holograph

Mott, Lucretia. ALS to 1874 Nov. 18 corr. Out 1 p.

With: Browning, E. B. Sonnet on Mr. Haydon's picture of Mr. Wordsworth. 1842. Holograph poem, undated. 1 p. Published in New Letters, p. 117

Manuscript box. Folders 11a, 34, 89. In: Browning, E. B. 113 ALS to Arabella Barrett Moulton-Barrett. [v. p., April, 1839-May (?) 1861] Moulton-Barrett, Arabella Barrett. 3 ANS to [1847] Feb. 8; [1851] Dec. 25; [1858] June 28 corr. Out [3 items] Inserted in his: Strafford. London, 1837. Copy 2 Moxon, Edward. ALS to [1845?] corr. Out 3 p. Manuscript box Parkes, Elizabeth Rayner. ALS to 1864 Jan. 19 corr. Out 1 item

Published in New Letters, p. 159. H.

Oversize (+). In: Album of letters and autographs Powell, Thomas [?]. ALS to [n.d.] corr. Out 1 item Manuscript box Pym, [Augusta Harding]. ALS to 1868 Apr. 30 corr. Out 1 item

H.

Manuscript box Reinagh, Mr. ALS to 1865 Jan. 19 corr. Out 1 item

H.

Manuscript box [Simeon], Sir John. ALS to. Regarding a pension for William Allingham [18]68 Dec. 28 corr. Out 1 item

B.

Manuscript box Talfourd, [Thomas Noon]. ALS to [1835?] corr. Out 1 p.

B.

Thackeray, [William Makepeace]. ALS to 1860 Jan. 17 corr. Out 1 item

H.

Manuscript box Ticknor and Fields. ALS to 1868 Sept. 2 corr. Out 3 p.

H.

Manuscript box Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. 2 ALS to 1887 June 30; 1887 July 13 corr. Out 2 items In: Album of autographs, mostly 19th century Tweeddale, Lady. ANS to [18]86 Apr. 15 corr. Out 1 p. Inserted in: [Broe, Samuel de seigneur de Citry et de la Guette]. The history of the triumvirates. London, 1686. Unknown correspondent. ALS to an 1887 Apr. 23 corr. Out 2 p.

H.

Manuscript box Westwood(?), Thomas. ALS to. Removed from his: Men and women, 1855. Copy 3 1880 Mar. 27 corr. Out 1 item [--?]. Facsimile of an ALS to [1863 Mar. 27] corr. Out 1 item

H.

Manuscript box [--?]. ALS to 1869 Nov. 18 corr. Out 1 item Manuscript box [--?]. Sir Henry. ALS to 1876 Mar. 31 corr. Out 3 p. Manuscript box [--?]. ALS to 1884 Apr. 30 corr. Out 1 item

Y.

[--?], Margaret. ALS to. Mutilated. First half of first leaf cut away [1884?] corr. Out 3 p. Oversize (+) [--?]. AN, in the third person, to [n.d.] corr. Out 1 item

With: Hunt, Leigh. ALS to Lord Holland. Chelsea, July 5 [n.y.]

Incoming Correspondence Manuscript box Carlyle, Thomas. ALS to R. Browning 1841 June 21 corr. In 2 leaves

Y.

Carlyle, Thomas. 3 ALS to R. Browning 1847 June 23 - 1856 Apr. 25 corr. In 3 items

George Seton Veitch bookplate; Y.

Dickens, Charles. ALS to R. Browning 1856 Apr. 12 corr. In 1 p.

H.

Fields, James Thomas. LS to R. Browning 1868 Sept. 19 corr. In 3 p.

H.

Oversize (+) Forster, John. 16 ALS to Mr. & Mrs. Robert Browning 1854 - 1875 corr. In 16 items

With: ALS from L. Smith to R. Browning, Dec. 7, 1869; ALS from W. V. Harcourt to R. Browning, [n.d.]; ALS from Julian Fane to Forster, July 24, 1869. H.

Oversize (+) Harcourt, W. V. ALS to R. Browning [n.d.] corr. In 1 item

With: Forster, John. 16 ALS to Mr. & Mrs. Robert Browning, 1854-1875; ALS from L. Smith to Robert Browning, Dec. 7, 1869; and ALS from Julian Fane to John Forster, July 24, 1869. H.

Manuscript box (Beddoes) Kelsall, Thomas Forbes. TL (two copies) to R. Browning. Relates to manuscripts of Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1867 Nov. 13 corr. In 2 items

On p. 5 of first copy is stamped: "F. L. Pleadwell, No. 2610". Published in The Browning Box, ed. Donner, London, 1935, p. 96-98

Inserted in his: Gebir. London, 1798. Copy 1 Landor, Walter Savage. ALS to R. Browning. Dated in Browning's hand 1864 June 26 corr. In 1 p. Manuscript box Martineau, Harriet. ALS to R. Browning [1840?] Apr. 8 corr. In 2 leaves

H.

(Browning, R.)-A. Inserted in: [Patterson, W. F.] The lady and the saints. London, 1839 Ruskin, John. ALS to R. Browning 1855 Dec. 2 corr. In 6 leaves Manuscript box Ruskin, John. ALS to R. Browning [n.d.] corr. In 1 leaf

Y.

Oversize (+) Smith, L. ALS to R. Browning 1869 Dec. 7 corr. In 1 item

With: Forster, John. 16 ALS to Mr. & Mrs. Robert Browning, 1854-1875; ALS from W. V. Harcourt to Robert Browning, [n.d.]; and ALS from Julian Fane to John Forster, July 24, 1869. H.

Manuscript box Stephen, Sir Leslie. ALS to R. Browning. Relating to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's works 1874 Jan. 29 corr. In 2 p. Inserted in: Landor, W. S. The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor. New ed., enl. Edinburgh, 1859. Copy 1 Swinburne, Algernon Charles. ALS to R. Browning [1869] June 7 corr. In 3 p. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron. 14 ALS to R. Browning. Three letters undated. Bound by Riviere 1864 May 31 - 1889 Aug. corr. In 14 items

Y.

Related Correspondence Browning, E. B. ALS to W. J. Fox 1859 June 8 corr. About 1 item

Postscript signed by Robert Browning. H.

Manuscript box (Browning, R.) Browning, Robert Wiedeman Barrett. ALS to Mrs. Sophia May Eckley. Relates to Robert Browning [1859] corr. About 1 item

H.

Manuscript box (Browning, R.) Browning, Robert Wiedeman Barrett. ALS to Alexandra (Leighton) Orr. Relates to Robert Browning [n.d.] corr. About 1 p. Manuscript box (Stephen, L.) Orr, Alexandra (Leighton), "Mrs. Sutherland Orr". ALS to Sir Leslie Stephen. Relates to John Stuart Mill's opinion of Robert Browning's Pauline 1891 May 31 corr. About 1 item Portraits Manuscript box Portrait photograph 1862 Oct. portraits [1 item]

Inscribed by Robert Browning, "Paris, October 1862". Came with the Moulton-Barrett papers