Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (poet)
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Robert Browning (1812-89), poet
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Series
Letter from Robert Browning, 19 Oct. 1889
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8990/67
Scope and Contents
Thanks for sending syllabus of Browning's works
Dates:
19 Oct. 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from Robert Browning to a friend [about Edward Fitzgerald's criticism of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which led to a bitter attack on Fitzgerald by Browning], 20 July 1889
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8812/59
Scope and Contents
He opened a book at random and received 'this direst blow'; if Fitzgerald was an admirable person, 'this seems to aggravate rather than lighten the outrage'; though Fitzgerald disliked Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry, he need not have expressed 'relief at her death'; he will 'try and forget the sad business' and end his desire to know Fitzgerald; returns Lady Tennyson's sympathetic letter - a pity that Fitzgerald's words were not confined to his appreciative circle of friends; 'I hope...
Dates:
20 July 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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Miscellaneous accessions
Series
Letter from Robert Browning to Frederick Locker, 1956
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8985/671
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Letters from many American and English poets and scholars, 1940-80; occasional manuscripts and typescripts of poetry; 18 letters on The Sandpipers; and a collection of letters of poets and writers, 1856-c.1950.
Dates:
1956
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Letters from Robert Browning and from W. E. Henley to Wilfrid Meynell, 1889-1891
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/A2/5
Scope and Contents
Autograph ms. letters of 1 bifolium with envelopes dated 7 Oct. 1889 (Browning) and 16 June 1891 (Henley).
Dates:
1889-1891
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).