Robert Browning letter to [Christopher] Dowson, Monday night, 2 pp. “What kind of ‘engagement’ that may be which would ‘put ours off’ ….” Acquired September 2015
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1898), volume 2 only. Contains two fore-edge painting specimens: one is a portrait of Robert Browning next to a rural road with a city in the distance; the other is of a…
Pocket Volume of Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1891). Inscribed by Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) to the wife of his personal physician, Dr. Clarence C. Rice, referring to an evening of [Twain’s] reading the…
Souvenirs from Robert Browning’s funeral: Order of Service, 2 tickets, 1 printed return request Acquired January 2016
Photograph of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Julia Margaret Cameron Acquired January 2016
Translation by Thomas Carlyle of a Goethe poem, beginning “For the tie is snapt asunder….” Acquired January 2016
Letter from John Ruskin to Mrs. Simon, 1 March [1863] and to Charles Kingsley, c. 1860/1870 Acquired January 2016
Letter from George Sand to Robert Browning, in French, 13 May 1852 Acquired January 2016
Letter from Robert Browning to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 30 June 1875 Acquired January 2016
A presentation copy of Alfred Tennyson’s Queen Mary, A Drama (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875) Inscribed by Tennyson to Blanche Vere Ponsonby Acquired January 2016