Items related to Robert Browning’s “Christmas Eve” Letter from Ella Sophia Armitage to Robert Browning, December 6th. 1889 1850 Edition of “Christmas-Eve” owned by William Allingham with reader’s manuscript jingle. Browning Guide M0107. ABLibrary Rare X 821.83 P5 C466c c. 6 1850 Edition of…
Responses to the Chartists J.W. Whittaker’s Sermon to the Chartists ABLibrary 19thCent OVZ BX5133.W542x D7 1839 J.A. Jones’s New Church “Songs and Ballads” Set to Old Cathedral Music: An Analytical Review of “Songs and Ballads for the People” ABLibrary 19thCent OVZ BX5135.J66 1843 Christian Remembrancer‘s “Review of:…
Artifacts related to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh Manuscript of Aurora Leigh (Browning Guide D0051) Author’s proof corrections for Aurora Leigh (Browning Guide D0058) Author’s proof corrections for Aurora Leigh (Browning Guide D0061) Fly-sheet inscription (W.M. Rossetti, From the Authoress”) from Rare Book (ABLibrary…
Baron Alfred Tennyson Manuscript: “To the Queen” Draft [N.D.] Rare Item Analysis: Comparison of an Early Draft of Tennyson’s “To the Queen” [N.D.] and the 1851 Published Version By Loren Warf About the Manuscript: Among the holdings of the Armstrong Browning Library (ABL)…
Correspondence from William Wordsworth: To Allen Cunningham, January 8, 1827 To John Abraham Heraud, June 10, 1834 To Francis Merewether, August 7, 1829 Rare Item Analysis: Insights from Wordsworth’s Personal Correspondence by Becca Craigen By examining a few of Wordsworth’s letters housed in…
“The Sankhya Karika” Manuscript by Henry David Thoreau This manuscript from Thoreau was acquired in the late 80’s or early 90’s when Dr. John Belew (Provost at the time) was diligently expanding the ABL’s Nineteenth Century Collection. The manuscript had been inserted by…
Unpublished Letter: Dorothy Wordsworth to Joshua and John James Watson, 2 June 1820 Rare Item Analysis: Dorothy Wordsworth’s Letter and Its Significance by Crystal Wu This post shall spotlight Dorothy Wordsworth’s unpublished letter “1820, June 2, Dorothy Wordsworth to Joshua Watson and John…
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems (first edition, second issue 1798) Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, in two volumes (1800) Rare Item Analysis: by Allie Matherne This post will examine and describe the significance…
Letters: Tennyson to Roden Noel, 13 Feb. 1887 Tennyson to Sir Edwin Arnold, 25 March 1891 Description and Transcriptions: by Mackenzie Sarna In the first letter, Tennyson congratulates poet and essayist Roden Noel on his recently published volume (probably his edition of The…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems (second edition, 1797) Sibylline Leaves (first edition, 1817) Christabel; Kubla Khan, a vision; The Pains of Sleep (first edition, 1816) Rare Item Analysis: Coleridge’s Original Intentions Seen through Rare Editions of His Poetry by Karoline DaVee The purpose of this post…