The Brownings


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Autograph Letter Signed


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With original envelope, inscribed for delivery by hand. Presenting the copy of the Life of William Blake, as her late husband had desired.







Autograph Letters Signed from Sir Leslie Stephen, London, to Various People


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Correspondents: Robert Browning, William Heinemann, Sydney Smith, Messrs. Trubner and another. In (1) Stephen asks Browning on behalf of Richard Simpson to read the play of "Sir Thomas More" and tell him if he can concur with Simpson in attributing part of it from internal evidence to Shakespeare. In (3) he tells (Smith?) that to him the 'Shakespeare-Bacon' theory is a mere craze.




Autograph Letter Signed from F. Locker to Robert Browning


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Thanks Browning for his "precious gift" and declares that Browning is "the most original poet that the world has ever seen." Mentions that he, Locker, gave Arthur Stanley a copy of Cowden Clark's Concordance to Shakespeare and quotes the inscription he added. Written on mourning paper from the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall. Letter addressed to "my dear friend," with accompanying envelope addressed to Robert Browning.










Autograph Letters Signed and Unsigned from Walter Savage Landor, England and Italy, to Various People


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Correspondents: [William J. Birch], the Countess of Blessington, [William H. Dixon], [Margaret] Hodson [i.e., Holford], [Robert G. MacGregor] and another. Discusses Shakespeare, Bacon, Coleridge, and other writers. (1) September 5, 1848 to [William J.Birch]; in (2) July 12, 1834 to Countess Blessington he includes two poems, a fragment, and preliminary matter for A conference of Master Edmund Spenser...; (3) June 27, [1861?] to [William H. Dixon]; (4) June 12, 1829 to Mrs. [Margaret] Hodson; in (5) to [Robert Guthrie MacGregor] he reflects on Othello. Also, (6) a letter from Landor to an unidentified recipient, (7) a note on Chaucer, and two poems (8) on Shakespeare and (9) on Robert Browning.