Research Catalog

Title

Colombe's birthday [manuscript] : a play in three acts / by R[obert] B[rowning].

Author

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.

Publication

[1843-1844]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917.
• Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917
• Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.
• Campbell, James Dykes, 1838-1895.
• Browning Society (London, England)

Description

1 volume (title leaf + 59 leaves); 34 cm

Summary

Holograph manuscript of Browning's verse-play first published in 1844 as number VI of his Bells and Pomegranates series. At the end of the volume, reverso, are three manuscript pages, in pencil, of another play, titled "Otho, or The last day," in the hand of Robert Browning, Sr., the poet's father, dated June 13/[18]47. In vellum binding with manuscript spine titling ("Colombe's Birthday"), the bookplate of H. Buxton Forman on the front pastedown. Mounted to front binder's leaves are two manuscript letters that discuss Colombe's Birthday: one from Browning to Forman dated 2 July 1877 (MISC 0811); and one from Richard Garnett to Forman dated 31 July 1894 (MISC 0812). Various accompanying materials have been removed to the Miscellaneous Manuscripts file, filed under Browning as (MISC 0810-0811): galley proofs of Forman's articles on Colombe's Birthday from the Athenæum in 1894, with Forman's notations; Forman's 3-page autograph "Note for Wise," describing the manuscript; a reference note signed "HBF" referring to the Browning letter of 1877; an autograph letter from J. Dykes Campbell to Forman dated 5 November 1885 offering tickets to a production of Colombe's Birthday, along with a printed announcement of the play from the Browning Society; an obituary clipping from The Daily News of 1 November 1898, on the actress Helen Faucit, who played Colombe; and various related early 20th century clippings. Removed and cataloged separately is the first printed appearance of Browning's "The King" (2 pages; 1 leaf) removed from The Monthly Repository. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer at the H. Buxton Forman sale, part I, Anderson Galleries, March 1920, lot 127, through Rosenbach & Co.

Subjects

• Martin, Helena Faucit, 1814-1898
• Verse drama
• Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 > Colombe's birthday

Genre/Form

Verse drama.

Note

• Pforzheimer Manuscript (MISC 0810).

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• Anderson Galleries, The library of the late H. Buxton Forman, part I, March 15-17, 1920

Call Number

Pforz BND-MSS (Browning, R. Colombe's birthday)

OCLC

1096538736

Author

Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.

Title

Colombe's birthday [manuscript] : a play in three acts / by R[obert] B[rowning].

Production

[1843-1844]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Anderson Galleries, The library of the late H. Buxton Forman, part I, March 15-17, 1920, lot 127.

Access

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

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Added Author

Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917.

Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917, former owner.

Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917, addressee.

Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.

Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.

Campbell, James Dykes, 1838-1895.

Browning Society (London, England)

Research Call Number

Pforz BND-MSS (Browning, R. Colombe's birthday)