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

File

[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'".

The contents of this box were decided upon by the previous owner and donor Edward R. Moulton-Barrett. Some material has been identified as particularly valuable or fragile and has therefore been put in individual envelopes. However these are still kept within the box to preserve the original order as much as possible.