Manuscripts
Robert Browning collection
- Description
A collection of manuscripts and correspondence related to Robert Browning. The manuscripts include two autograph quotations, "Christmas Eve and Easter Day" and "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix," and the autograph poem "Red Cotton Night-Cap Country." The collection also includes a forgery of a fragment of a poem (mssHM 46121). The majority of the collection is comprised of correspondence which includes letters by, among others: Willam Allingham, Eliza Bridell-Fox, Henry Fothergill Chorley, Frances Power Cobbe, Sidney Colvin, Moncure Daniel Conway, William Hepworth Dixon, Mary Gladstone Drew, Amelia B. Edwards, Havelock Ellis, William Johnson Fox, Frederick James Furnivall, Anna Maria Fielding Hall, Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, Emily Henrietta Hickey, John Camden Hotten, Charles Godfrey Leland, William Charles Macready, Edward Moxon, John Ruskin, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Frederick Wedmore, and William Hale White.
- Date
- 1833-1889
- Call number
- mssBrowningr
- Provenance
- purchased from Anderson Galleries sale, 1915.
- purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 362, 1917.
- purchased from Anderson Galleries, Learmont sale, January 1918.
- purchased from Anderson Galleries sale, cat. 61, 1919.
- purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 381, 386, 1919.
- purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 388, 396, 1920.
- purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 405, 411, 417, 1921.
- purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 421, 425, 427, 433, 1922.
- purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 436, 439, 441, 1923.
- purchased from Charles Sessler sale, 1925.
- reproduced from the originals, Bibliographical Society of America, June 1948.
- purchased from Halsey collection sale, 1961.
- provenance unknown. In library as of, 1977.
- Restrictions
- Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
- Rights
- The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
- Associated people
- Allingham, William, (1824-1889,)
- Bridell-Fox, Eliza, (1823 or 1824-1893,)
- Chorley, Henry Fothergill, (1808-1872,)
- Cobbe, Frances Power, (1822-1904,)
- Colvin, Sidney, (1845-1927,)
- Conway, Moncure Daniel, (1832-1907,)
- Dixon, William Hepworth, (1821-1879,)
- Drew, Mary Gladstone, (1847-1927,)
- Edwards, Amelia B., (1831-1892,)
- Ellis, Havelock, (1859-1939,)
- Fox, W. J. (1786-1864,)
- Furnivall, Frederick James, (1825-1910,)
- Hall, S. C., (1800-1881,)
- Haworth, Euphrasia Fanny, (1801-1883,)
- Hickey, Emily Henrietta, (1845-1924,)
- Hotten, John Camden, (1832-1873,)
- Leland, Charles Godfrey, (1824-1903,)
- Macready, William Charles, (1793-1873,)
- Moxon, Edward, (1801-1858,)
- Ruskin, John, (1819-1900,)
- Talfourd, Thomas Noon, (1795-1854,)
- Wedmore, Frederick, (1844-1921,)
- White, William Hale, (1831-1913,)
