[Rarebooks] FS: Elizabeth Barrett Browning SIGNED Letter

[Charles Agvent]

BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). [Rome], 
[April 1859]. Handwritten letter SIGNED "Elizabeth B. Browning" on a 
3-3/8" x 5-1/4" sheet of paper matted and framed with a portrait to an 
overall size of 10-1/2" x 8-1/4". Browning has written "43 Bocca di 
Leone" as a return address. The letter is addressed to a Miss Shepard. 
In part: "I send the beef-tea, & will you let me know tomorrow when more 
shall be wanted -- & whether the gelatina made of chicken would be a 
desirable change?-- Use me, I beg of you-- I do congratulate you all, 
out of a full heart--." A postscript: "One word of verbal message to say 
how she is today." An interesting insight into the domestic side of the 
famous poet. EBB to Ada Shepard (4382), as published in THE BROWNINGS’ 
CORRESPONDENCE, 26, 117, where the date is given as Sunday [?10] [April 
1859: "Conjectural date suggested by EBB’s references to easily 
digestible food, doubtless for Una Hawthorne"; and the text is taken 
from AAA’s (American Art Association) Catalogue, 6 May 1915. Light 
spotting to letter, some soiling at very bottom of letter covering up 
part of the words of the postscript. Letter examined out of frame and no 
other defects observed. Very Good. (#021335)        $7,500

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