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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1833-1889
Call number: mssBrowningr

Robert Browning collection

Manuscripts

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.

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Robert Southey collection

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A collection of letters written by Robert Southey to William Taylor, British scholar, essayist, and translator. The collection also includes two letters to James Everett and a letter by John Warden Robberds. Three of the letters by Southey include autograph copies of his poems, "The Wedding," "Inscription Under an Oak," and "King Ramiro." The letters discuss many of the important people of the period including, among others, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Humphry Davy, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, Napoleon I, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth. Also included is the original separated binding, with the William K. Bixby bookplate; all of the material in the collection is still window-mounted on paper.

mssHM 4815-4876

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Robert Southey collection

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mssHM 4815-4876

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Robert Browning autograph letters

Manuscripts

Various letters, cuttings, pamphlets, photographs, and engravings; some material related to the death and funeral of Robert Browning,

mssHM 12806-12832

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Algernon Swinburne collection

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A collection of manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera related to the British poet and writer Algernon Charles Swinburne. The manuscripts include essays, ballads, poems and a new introduction to a new edition of William Blake: A Critical Essay. The poems include Atlanta in Calydon, On a Country Road, Hymn to Proserpine, and Changes of Heart; and the subjects of the poems and essays include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake, Sir Richard Francis Burton, and James McNeill Whistler. Correspondents in the collection include Ford Madox Brown, Sidney Colvin, Paul Hamilton Hayne, John Camden Hotten, Harry Quilter, Richard Herne Shepherd, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and George Frederick Watts. The ephemera includes a small number of printed portraits and other printed material.

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Algernon Swinburne collection

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