MS 681 01 02

MS 681 01 02

Moulton-Barrett archive: Papers relating to Pen Barrett-Browning's estate, Besier's 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' and other material

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[19th century - early 20th century]

1 box

A box containing papers relating to Pen Barrett-Browning's estate, Rudolph Besier's play 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' and other material. There are Pen Barrett-Browning's estate papers obtained from lawyers' files in 1983 and papers relating to the disposal of Pen's estate in a separate envelope. In terms of 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street', there are 2 autograph letters from Besier to Edward Moulton-Barrett (July 1930), a copy of the programme, a copy of 'The Play Pictorial' and a copy of 'Talking about the Barretts : A Prologue and an Epilogue to the Play 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street'', by Edward R. Moulton-Barrett.

Also in this box are newspaper cuttings relating to Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, a catalogue of the centenary exhibition of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning with the typescript of the address given by Edward R. Moulton-Barrett, a watercolour of Elizabeth's grave, letters from Alfred Moulton-Barrett to Altham Altham, a copy of a portrait of Edward Barrett of Cinnamon Hill, reproduction photographs of likenesses of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning and two manuscript notebooks. One is a manuscript journal, with pencil, previously owned by Edward R. Moulton-Barrett, of a young officer called Thomas Stover Hill (1824-1850) who lived in Jamaica. The other is the manuscript diary of Richard Barrett (1789-1839). It has been published by the Wedgestone Press in 1983 as "Richard Barrett's Journal : New York and Canada, 1916", edited and introduced by Thomas Brott and Philip Kelley.

In a box labelled "Pen's Estate / Besier's 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street'".