- Creator
- Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
- Call number
- Pforz MS
- Physical description
- 171 items
- Preferred Citation
- Robert Browning manuscript material : 171 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.
Robert Browning, English Victorian poet and playwright. The Robert Browning manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of his writings and correspondence. The writings include one holograph verse play (Colombe's Birthday), some autograph corrections of printed proof sheets (La Saisiaz and Jocoseria), and one holograph sonnet, "Tutti ga I so gusti e mi go I mii." The bulk of the correspondence is dated between 1876 and 1887 and discusses both his professional and personal life, and his Shelley related interests. Correspondents include: Sarah Anne FitzGerald, learned lady ; H. Buxton Forman, bibliographer and forger ; Ellen Heaton, art collector and philanthropist ; George Barnett Smith, author and journalist ; and over forty others.
Key terms
Names
- Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
- Bell, Mrs (Recipient)
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898 (Recipient)
- Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920 (Recipient)
- Childers, Mrs (Recipient)
- Cholmondeley, Reginald (Recipient)
- Coleridge, Arthur Duke, 1830-1913 (Recipient)
- Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 (Recipient)
- Cust, Henry John Cockayne, 1861-1917 (Recipient)
- Cust, Sara Jane Cockayne, d. 1867 (Recipient)
- Dalby, John Watson, b. 1799 (Recipient)
- Evans, John (Recipient)
- FitzGerald, Thomas, Mrs., 1809-1899 (Recipient)
- Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917 (Recipient)
- Fox, W. J. (William Johnson), 1786-1864 (Recipient)
- Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910 (Recipient)
- Gray, John A. C (Recipient)
- Grove, George, 1820-1900 (Recipient)
- Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894 (Recipient)
- Hills, Walter Alfred (Recipient)
- Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884 (Recipient)
- Hunt, Alfred, 1830-1896 (Recipient)
- Jones, Bence, 1814-1873 (Recipient)
- Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893 (Recipient)
- Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895 (Recipient)
- Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 (Recipient)
- Lyttelton, Sybella, Lady (Recipient)
- Macquoid, Thomas Robert, 1820-1912 (Recipient)
- Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873 (Recipient)
- Middleton, Julia Louisa Bosville, Lady, 1824-1901
- Moore, Bloomfield H., Mrs. (Clara Jessup), 1824-1899 (Recipient)
- Morris, Amherst, Mrs (Recipient)
- Morris, William, 1834-1896 (Recipient)
- Moxon, Edward, 1801-1858 (Recipient)
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
- Slyke, L. V. (Recipient)
- Smith, George Barnett, 1841-1909 (Recipient)
- Swanwick, Anna, 1813-1899 (Recipient)
- Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907 (Recipient)
- Young, Charles H (Recipient)
- Frederick Warne and Co. (Recipient)
Subjects
- Dramatists -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- English poetry -- 19th century -- Manuscripts -- Specimens
- Poets, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence
Titles
Using the collection
Location
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319