Holograph poem, "There was a sky-painter at Folkestone," unsigned

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1806931
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unitid
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{"value"=>"MISC 0801", "type"=>"local_call"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"26 April 1884", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1884-04-26"}
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{"value"=>"Holograph poem, \"There was a sky-painter at Folkestone,\" unsigned"}
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{"value"=>"MISC File"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Begins, \"There was a sky-painter at Folkestone / Whose tone for the sky was egg-yolk's tone: ....\" Contained within the body of a 26 April 1884 letter sent from 19 Warwick Crescent to Mrs. FitzGerald. This poem was written in response to Mrs. FitzGerald's effort to find a proper rhyme for the word \"Folkestone.\" Apparently, she had proposed \"joke's tone\" as a rhyme, but Browning did not find her suggestion satisfactory: \"I am forced to say there is an l in that word [Folkestone] which sounds in the ear and should appear to the eye, - and it is absent from 'joke's tone': my example [i.e. this poem] would therefore run thus ...\" See additional entry in series II for letter.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction, E0458; The Complete Works of Robert Browning, volume XVII, number 69, pages 131 and 445; McAleer, letter 63"}
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1884-04-26
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1884-04-26
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1884-04-26
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1884
date_inclusive_end
1884
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1/2 pages : double sheet

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