Browning (Robert) Collection, 1833-1889

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Summary

Title:
Robert Browning collection
Dates:
1833-1889
Creators:
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Abstract:
A collection of material related to Robert Browning, 19th century British poet and playwright.
Extent:
1.2 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Robert Browning collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

A collection of manuscripts and correspondence related to Robert Browning. The manuscripts include two autograph quotations, "Christmas Eve and Easter Day" and "How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix," and the autograph poem "Red Cotton Night-Cap Country." The collection also includes a forgery of a fragment of a poem (mssHM 46121). The majority of the collection is comprised of correspondence which includes letters by, among others: Willam Allingham, Eliza Bridell-Fox, Henry Fothergill Chorley, Frances Power Cobbe, Sidney Colvin, Moncure Daniel Conway, William Hepworth Dixon, Mary Gladstone Drew, Amelia B. Edwards, Havelock Ellis, William Johnson Fox, Frederick James Furnivall, Anna Maria Fielding Hall, Euphrasia Fanny Haworth, Emily Henrietta Hickey, John Camden Hotten, Charles Godfrey Leland, William Charles Macready, Edward Moxon, John Ruskin, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Frederick Wedmore, and William Hale White.

Biographical / historical:

Robert Browning (1812-1889) was a leading British Victorian poet and playwright; he married the poet Elizabeth Barrett in 1846.

Acquisition information:
mssHM 20073, purchased from Anderson Galleries sale, 1915; mssHM 4936, purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 362, 1917; mssHM 20076, purchased from Anderson Galleries, Learmont sale, January 1918; mssHM 20072, purchased from Anderson Galleries sale, cat. 61, 1919; mssHM 4937-4939, purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 381, 386, 1919; mssHM 4940, 4969, 4971-4972, 4995, purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 388, 396, 1920; mssHM 4943, 4945-4946, 4949, 4956, 4963-4965, 4976-4978, 4983, 4997, purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 405, 411, 417, 1921; mssHM 4935, 4941, 4944, 4950-4953, 4966-4967, 4973-4975, 4978-4979, 4981-4982, 4984-4985, 4987-4988, 4992, 4994, 4996, 7379-7384, 12805, purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 421, 425, 427, 433, 1922; mssHM 4947-4948, 4954-4955, 4957, 4960-4962, 4968, 4970, 4980, 4986, 4989-4991, 12800, purchased from Maggs Bros., cat. 436, 439, 441, 1923; mssHM 12833, purchased from Charles Sessler sale, 1925; mssFAC 71-72, reproduced from the originals, Bibliographical Society of America, June 1948; mssHM 20032-20035, purchased from Halsey collection sale, 1961; mssHM 46121, provenance unknown. In library as of, 1977.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Library staff from 1917 to 1977; in December 2025, Gayle M. Richardson created the finding aid. This collection includes multiple acquisitions acquired and assembled by Huntington Library staff over many years.

Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Gayle M. Richardson
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-01-06 08:05:27 -0800 .

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Robert Browning collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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