Robert Browning letter to Lady Reay, 25 February 1882 Acquired November 2015
Robert Browning envelope to Mrs. Rossetti Acquired November 2015
Letter from Robert Browning to Mrs. Benzon, no date, Friday [2 November 1867], accepting an invitation for Sunday. Acquired October 2015
Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting by Charles Bell (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806) Inscribed on the title-page by Robert Browning, Sr., with his notes on two back endpapers, and with penciled underlined text and markings in the margins,…
Victorian likeness: John Keble and his wife, Charlotte. Carte de visite. Taken in about 1863, in the year before Keble’s death. Acquired September 2015
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