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

An eleventh edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poetical Works (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1877) 5 volumes, inscribed by Robert Browning to Eleanor Locker, bound in turquoise morocco by W. Mansell, with gilt panels on the covers and spines Acquired January 2016

Three presentation copies of first editions by Robert Browning, each inscribed by Browning to Mrs. Charles Skirrow, and all published in London by Smith, Elder, & Co.: Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper (1876); The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877); and La Saisiaz:…

A presentation copy of Robert Browning’s Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887) Inscribed by Browning to Emily Harris

A second edition of Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1872). 4 volumes, inscribed by Browning to William Harcourt Hooper Acquired January 2016

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s copy of the Poetical Works of William Wordsworth (London: Edward Moxon, 1836-1837). 6 volumes, inscribed by EBB in volume 1: B. Barrett, from her dearest Papa, November, 1836, 74 Gloucester Place, and on the title-pages of volumes 2, 3, 4,…