Robert Browning collection of papers

id
5294
origination
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
date statement
1835?]-1933 [bulk 1835?-1889]
key date
1835
identifier (local_mss)
19175
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Browning, R [Text]
b-number
b15893397
total components
90
total series
3
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:05:17 UTC
updated
2026-08-16 02:10:20 UTC
status note
(missing)
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true

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physdesc
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unitdate
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unittitle
{"value"=>"Robert Browning collection of papers"}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and a portrait photograph."}
prefercite
{"value"=>"<p>[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
origination
{"value"=>"Browning, Robert, 1812-1889", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Robert Browning was a British poet. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>The bulk of the materials was formerly owned by W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. Some of the materials came to the Berg Collection with the Moulton-Barrett papers. The holograph of \"Epps\" is accompanied by Roderick Terry's bookplate; De la Ramee's holograph poem with Carl Van Vechten's bookplate; and the letters to Edward Dowden and to Leigh Hunt with Harry Bache Smith's bookplate.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and a portrait photograph. The collection includes a portrait photograph of Browning inscribed by Robert Browning, \"Paris, October 1862,\" by an unidentified photographer. The manuscripts consist of holograph poems, notes, and miscellaneous autograph material. Included is a holograph poem by Louise De la Ramee in memory of Robert Browning, a holograph poem by Earl Edward Lytton entitled \"To Robert Browning\", a holograph review by James Stephens of \"The Reader's Browning\", and a bound sequence of sonnets on the death of the author by A. C. Swinburne. The correspondence, dating from 1836 to 1889 includes letters written by the author to Isa Blagden, his son Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, Sophia May Eckley, Una Hawthorne, Leigh Hunt, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Edward Moxon, to Sir John Simeon regarding a pension for William Allingham, to Thomas Talfourd, William Makepeace Thackeray, T. A. Trollope, and to others. Also included are letters, dating from 1859 to 1891, relating to the author between various correspodents including letters from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to W. J. Fox; from Robert W. Barrett Browning to Mrs. Sophia May Eckley and to Alexandra Leighton Orr; and from Alexandra Leighton Orr to Sir Leslie Stephen relating to John Stuart Mill's opinion of Robert Browning's \"Pauline.\" Also present are letters to Browning from Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, John Forster, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, and others, dating from 1840 to 1889.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Robert Browning collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19175#c242821'>Manuscripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19175#c242838'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19175#c242909'>Portraits</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.</p>"}
userestrict
{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature</p>"}
physloc
{"value"=>"*Z-10341 [Microfilm]", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
date_inclusive_start
1835
date_inclusive_end
1933
note
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
keydate
1835
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
81 items
date_start
1835
date_end
1933
date_bulk_start
1835
date_bulk_end
1889

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