MS 682 01 01 01

MS 682 01 01 01

Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning collection: Individual letters from Robert Browning

File

1812-1889

1 folder, 2 volumes

A collection of approximately eighty individual autograph letters from Robert Browning to individual members of his circle. The earliest letter, regarding the publication of 'Paracelsus', dates from March 15 1836 and the latest is to Lady Aberdeen on July 10 1889.

There are letters to: Adam S. Pay, Agnes Zimmerman, Alfred Moulton-Barrett, Alfred Tennyson, Amalie Joachim, Anne Benson Procter, Anne Gilchrist, Annie Egerton Smith, Arthur C. Burnand, Austen Henry Layard, Barbara Lyall, Blanche Cookson, Carlo Brini, Charles Waldstein, David Ogilvy, Edith Marion Story, Editor of The Athenaeum, Edward Burne-Jones, Eliza Anne Ogilvy and David Ogilvy, Eliza Flower, Elizabeth Benzon, Emile Schlesinger, Enid Lady Layard, Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, Fannie Mary Bernard-Beere, Frederick James Furnivall,Frederick Leighton, Gertrude FitzPatrick, Gustav Natorp, Helena Faucit Martin, Henrietta Tindal, Henry Morley, Henry Parr, Henry Speight, Isa Blagden, John Frazer Corkran, John Henry Ingram, John Massie, John Willis Clark, Lady Aberdeen, Lady Chesham, Lady Lyell, Lady Selborne, Lady Stanley of Alderley, Lord Carnarvon, Louisa Browning, Louisa Edith Ward, Marion Murray, Mary Ann Virginia Gabriel, Mary Schlesinger, Messrs. Elliot & Fry, Miss McLane, Mrs Buxton, Norah Creina Blanche Bruce, Oscar Browning, P. R. Jackson, President of the Royal Society, Rachel Talfourd, Reuben Browning, Richard Hengist Horne, Sidney Colvin, Susan Fuller, The Duchess of St. Albans, Tom Taylor, W. Hale and Mabel Savile, William Bowman, William Cornwallis Cartwright, William Etty and William James Wolfe.

All of these autograph letters bar two are in chronological order within one folder. Envelopes, where present, have been kept with each letter. The earliest letter regarding 'Paracelsus' and the letter to Frederic Leighton on the death of Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (July 19 1861) are housed individually in custom-made cases.

There is an Excel Spreadsheet available that lists each individual letter in chronological order. It also gives the Brownings' Correspondence database reference number for each letter.