Cue Titles
1814–16 Copybook
Two-volume notebook containing transcripts by Mary Moulton-Barrett of EBB’s juvenile compositions, now at Huntington Library (see Reconstruction, D1406).
1838 Notebook
Notebook containing transcripts by Henrietta Moulton-Barrett of EBB’s poems, now at Huntington Library (see Reconstruction, D1406)
1849–61 Notebook
Notebook containing manuscripts written by EBB during 1849–1861, now at Yale University (see Reconstruction, D1407)
A. Jenkins
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
AAA
American Art Association, auctioneers, New York (merged in 1929 with Anderson)
Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Wales
ABL
Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
ABL/Altham
Armstrong Browning Library, Altham Archive, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
ABL/JMA
Armstrong Browning Library, Joseph Milsand Archive, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Adams House
Adams House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Agnew
Agnew’s, art dealers, London
Aitken
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Akron
University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Alberta
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Aldrich Coll
Aldrich Collection, Iowa State Historical Department, Des Moines, Iowa
Altman
B. Altman & Co., New York
Altschul
Stephen Altschul, New York
Amherst
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Anderson
Anderson Galleries, auctioneers, New York (merged in 1929 with AAA)
Antenne-Dorrance
Antenne-Dorrance Collection, University of Wisconsin
Arents
Arents Collection, The New York Public Library, New York
Art Institute
Art Institute of Chicago.
Ashley Library
The Ashley Library. A Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters Collected by Thomas James Wise, 11 vols. (London, 1922–36)
Ashmoleon
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
Asolo
Museo Civico, Asolo, Italy
B-GB
Letters of the Brownings to George Barrett, ed. Paul Landis (Urbana, 1958)
B-IB
Florentine Friends: The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning to Isa Blagden, 1850–1861, ed. Philip Kelley, Sandra Donaldson et al. (Winfield, Kansas, 2009)
B.F. Stevens
B.F. Stevens, later Stevens & Brown, Lt., book dealers, London
Bacon
Francis Bacon Library, Claremont, California
Bacri
Bacri Frères, Paris
BAF
Browning to His American Friends, ed. Gertrude Reese Hudson (New York, 1965)
Bagot
Dealer, buyer from Browning Collections
Bailey
Nicky Bailey, Colchester, Essex, England
Baker Univ
Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas
Ballard
Stephen Ballard, Colwall, England
Balliol
Balliol College, Oxford, England
Bangs
Bangs & Co., auctioneers, New York
Bank
Bank of England, London
Barker
Nicolas Barker, Hereford, England
Barmann
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Barnard
P.M. Barnard, book seller, Tunbridge Wells, England
BBC
British Broadcasting Corporation, London
BBIS-14
“Robert Browning’s Portraits, Photographs and Other Likenesses and Their Makers,” by Grace E. Wilson, Baylor Browning Interests Series Fourteen (Waco, Texas, 1943)
BBIS-23
“Elizabeth Barrett and the ‘Centurion’,” by Robert W. Gladish, Baylor Browning Interests Series Twenty-three (Waco, Texas, 1973)
BBIS-24
“The Letters of Robert Browning to Frederick and Nina Lehmann, 1863–1889,” ed. Boyd Litzinger, Baylor Browning Interests Series Twenty-four (Waco, Texas, 1975)
BBIS-5
“Diary of Miss Evelyn Barclay, Letters to Walter Savage Landor, Three Letters of Browning,” ed. A.J. Armstrong, Baylor Browning Interests Series Five (Waco, Texas, 1932)
BBIS-8
“Intimate Glimpses from Browning’s Letter File,” ed. A.J. Armstrong, Baylor Browning Interests Series Eight (Waco, Texas, 1934)
BC
The Brownings’ Correspondence, ed. Philip Kelley et al. (Winfield, Kansas, 1984– )
Berg
The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, New York
Berg Notebook I
Notebook containing draft manuscripts by EBB, now in Berg Collection (see Reconstruction, D1397)
Berg Notebook II
Notebook containing draft manuscripts by EBB, now in Berg Collection (see Reconstruction, D1398)
Berg Notebook III
Notebook containing draft manuscripts by EBB, now in Berg Collection (see Reconstruction, D1399)
Berg Notebook IV
Notebook containing draft manuscripts by EBB, now in Berg Collection (see Reconstruction, D1400)
Berger
The Sanford and Helen Berger Collection, Carmel, California
Berkeley
University of California at Berkeley, California
Berkeley-Divinity
Graduate Theological Divinity School, Berkeley, California
Berkshire Athenaeum
The Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Berkshire Record Office
Berkshire Record Office, Reading, England
Berly
Ernest Berly, né Schlesinger, buyer from Browning Collections on behalf of his cousin, Fannie Browning
Berman
Robert J. Berman, Tuxedo Park, New York
Bermann
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
BI
Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, ed. Edward C. McAleer (Austin, 1951)
Bibliography of EBB
T.J. Wise, A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (London, 1918)
Bibliography of RB
T.J. Wise, A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Robert Browning (London, 1897)
Birmingham
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
Birmingham Univ
University of Birmingham, England
BIS
Browning Institute Studies (New York, 1973–90)
Bishop
Bishop Collection, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania
BL
The British Library, London
Bloomfield
Lionel Leonard Bloomfield, private buyer from Browning Collections
BM
The British Museum, London
BN
The Browning Newsletter, ed. Warner Barnes (Waco, Texas, 1968–72)
Bodleian
The Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
Bodmeriana
Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland
Bonhams
Bonhams, Auctioneers, London
Borough
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Boston Ath
Library of the Boston Athenaeum, Massachusetts
Boston PL
Boston Public Library, Massachusetts
Boston Univ
Boston University, Massachusetts
Boulder
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Bridwell
Special Collections, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Brigham Young
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Brighton
East Sussex County Libraries, Brighton Area Library, Brighton, England
Bristol
Bristol Reference Library, Bristol, England
British Columbia
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Brown
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Browning Collections
The Browning Collections. Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Drawings & Prints; Autograph Letters and Manuscripts; Books … the Property of R.W. Barrett Browning, Esq. (London, 1913). Reprinted in Munby, Sale Catalogues, VI (1972)
Browning Memorials
Browning Memorials: A Catalogue of Books, Drawings, Autograph Letters, and other Relics. Offered for sale by Bertram Dobell (London, 1913). Reprinted in BIS, 2, 77–118
Browning Society
The Browning Society, London
BrS
Robert Browning Settlement, London
Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
BSN
Browning Society Notes (London, 1970–2008)
Buffalo
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, New York
Bumpus
J.E. Bumpus & Co., book dealers, London
Cambridge Univ
Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, England
Camellia
Camellia Collection, Linton Park, Kent, England
Carlson
Clayton E. Carlson, San Francisco, California
Cartwright-Hignett
Mrs. Elizabeth Cartwright-Hignett, Bradford-on-Avon, England
Castle Howard
Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England
Catalogue Raisonné
“The Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings of Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning (1849–1912): A Catalogue Raisonné,” by Philip Kelley, Betty A. Coley and Richard Townsend. SBHC, 10, no. 1 (Spring 1982), 7–35
Centaro
Fedele Centaro, Florence, Italy
Centenary Edition
The Works of Robert Browning, ed. F.G. Kenyon, 10 vols. (London, 1912; reprinted New York, 1966)
Centenary Exhibition
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806–1861, Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition held at St. Marylebone Central Public Library, comp. Philip Kelley (London, 1961)
Checklist
The Brownings’ Correspondence: A Checklist, comps. Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (New York and Arkansas City, Kansas, 1978)
Chicago
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago PL
Chicago Public Library, Chicago, Illinois
Christie’s
Christie, Manson & Woods, auctioneers, London and New York
Cincinnati PL
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ohio
Clark
Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, California
Coffey
Bysshe Inigo Coffey, Exeter, England
Colbeck
Norman Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Colby
Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Collings
Norman Collings, Tunbridge Wells, England
Colorado
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Columbia
Columbia University, New York
Comune di Firenze
Archivio Storico del Comune di Firenze, Italy
Concord
Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts
Conru
Andrew Conru, Palo Alto, California
Cooper
Elisabeth Lady Cooper, London
Copenhagen
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Cornell
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Cornhill
The Cornhill Magazine, London
Crowder
Ashby Bland Crowder. “Attribution and Misattribution: New Poems by Robert Browning?” Philological Quarterly, 91 (Summer 2012), 443–464.
Dale
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Dalton
Harry L. Dalton, Rosemont, Pennsylvania
Dartmouth
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Davis
University of California at Davis, California
Delaware
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
DI
Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, ed. Edward C. McAleer (Austin, 1951)
Diary
Diary by E.B.B.: The Unpublished Diary of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1831–1832, ed. Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (Athens, Ohio, 1969)
Dobell
Bertram Dobell & Sons, book dealers, London (later Tunbridge Wells)
Dodd
Robert H. Dodd, book seller, New York. Dodd issued a catalogue entitled Description of a Remarkable Collection of Original MSS ... of Robert & Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Exhibition and For Sale by Robert H. Dodd (New York, 1916)
Donner
The Browning Box, ed. H.W. Donner (London, 1935)
Doré
The Doré Gallery, London
Dorset
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, England
Dowdeswell
Walter Dowdeswell, art dealer, buyer from Browning Collections
Driscoll
Emily Driscoll, book seller, New York (later Shepherdstown, West Virginia)
Du Pre
Miss Emily Madelina Du Pre, private buyer from Browning Collections
Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Duke
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Dulwich
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Dumbarton
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, D.C.
Dunnico
The Rev. Clive R. Dunnico, London
Durham
University of Durham, England
E. Parsons
Edwin Parsons & Sons, book dealers, London
E. Samuel
E. Samuel, book seller, Museum St., London
EBB
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB-AB
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Her Sister Arabella, ed. Scott Lewis, 2 vols. (Waco, Texas, 2002)
EBB-HSB
Elizabeth Barrett to Mr. Boyd. Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Hugh Stuart Boyd, ed. Barbara P. McCarthy (New Haven, 1955)
EBB-MRM
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836–1854, ed. Meredith B. Raymond and Mary Rose Sullivan, 3 vols. (Winfield, Kansas, 1983)
EBB: Original MSS
Volume containing manuscripts by EBB, now at Wellesley College. See D1407.1 for full description
Edwards
Francis Edwards, Ltd., book dealers, London (later Hay-on-Wye)
Edwin
Mrs. E. Edwin, buyer from Browning Collections
Ellis
Messrs. Ellis, book dealers, London
Elusive MSS
“Elusive Browningiana: A List of Unlocated Manuscripts, Marginalia & Annotated Works,” comps. Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson, BIS, 7 (1979), 137–158
EM
Elizabeth Moulton, EBB’s paternal grandmother
Eton
Eton College Library, Eton, England
Eton (Meredith)
The Michael Meredith Collection, Eton College Library, Eton College, England.
Everard Meynell
Everard Meynell, book seller, London
F. Harvey
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
F. Morrison
Unidentifed buyer from Browning Collections
Fairbairn
Hilda Faibairn, private buyer from Browning Collections
Fairfax Murray
Charles Fairfax Murray, private buyer from Browning Collections
Fales
Fales Library, New York University, New York
FB
Fannie Browning (née Coddington)
Feinstein
Alan & Miranda Feinstein, Johannesburg, South Africa
Fenton & Sons
Arms dealers, buyer from Browning Collections
Fine Art Society
Art dealers, buyer from Browning Collections
Fitzwilliam
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Florida
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Florida State
Florida State University at Tallahassee, Florida
Folger
The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Fothergill
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Franck
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Francus
Joseph Francus, Munroe Falls, Ohio
Fredeman
Mrs. Betty A. Fredeman, Austin, Texas
Fugitives
Park Honan, “The Texts of Fifteen Fugitives by Robert Browning,” VP, 5 (1967), 157–169
G.S. Hellman
George S. Hellman, buyer from Browning Collections
Gardner
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
Gaston
Unidentifed buyer (believed a dealer) from Browning Collections
Gent
Nicholas Gent, Bradford-on-Avon, England
Georgetown
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Girton
Girton College, Cambridge, England
Glasgow
Glasgow University, Scotland
Glasgow City
Glasgow City Archives, Glasgow, Scotland
GM-B
Gordon E. Moulton-Barrett, Hobe Sound, Florida
Goldoni
Casa di Goldoni, Venice
Goodall
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collecions
Goodhart
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Goodspeed’s
Goodspeed’s Book Shop, Inc., book dealers, Boston, Massachusetts
Grolier
Grolier Club, New York
Gulotta
Victor Gulotta, Newton, Massachusetts
Gunn
Gunn Memorial Library and Museum, Washington, Conn.
Hamilton
Charles Hamilton Galleries, Inc., autograph dealers and auctioneers, New York
Hampden-Booth
Walter Hampden-Edwin Booth Theatre Collection and Library, New York
Handbook
W.C. DeVane, A Browning Handbook, 2nd ed. (New York, 1955)
HARC
Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre, Hereford, England
Harding
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Harewood
Harewood House, Leeds, England
Harrow
Harrow School, Harrow-on-the-Hill, England
Hartford
British Notables Collection, Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Conneticut
Hartlebury
Hereford and Worcester County Museum at Hartlebury Castle, England
Harvard
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hayman
James Hayman, Sotheby’s foreman porter
Hayward
California State University, Hayward, California
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire Record Office, Hertford, England
Hervey-Bathurst
James Hervey-Bathurst, Ledbury, England
Heydon
Peter N. Heydon, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Hiersemann
Karl W. Hiersemann, book seller, Leipzig
Hilditch
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Hingson Sale
The Property of Mrs. A. Hingson, Harewood Avenue, London, sold at Sotheby’s, 17 December 1908. The items sold included books, manuscripts and furniture with Moulton-Barrett associations. Annie Hingson was the second wife of Edwin Hingson (1827–1908) who was employed at 50 Wimpole Street when EBB’s father died. Some of the items in this sale had been purchased by Hingson at a sale of Moulton-Barrett household effects held at Wimpole Street in August 1857.
Hispanic Society
Hispanic Society of America, New York
Hoag
Paul F. Hoag, book seller, Gilmanton, New Hampshire
Hodgson’s
Hodgson’s Rooms, auctioneers, London
Hogg
Baroness Sarah E.M. Hogg, London
Holland
David Holland, Polegate, England
Hollings
Frank Hollings, book seller, London
Hood
Unidentifed buyer from Browning Collections
Hornstein
Joseph Hornstein, book seller, London
Howell
Howell & Co., book dealers, London
Huntington
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
HUP
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Hitherto Unpublished Poems and Stories, ed. H. Buxton Forman, 2 vols. (Boston, 1914)
Hutt
Frederick H. Hutt, book seller, London
ICS
Archives of the Intercontinental Church Society, Guildhall Library, London
Illinois
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
India Office
India Office Collection, British Library, London
Ingatherer
The Ingatherer, catalogue of Colbeck, Radford & Co., book dealers, London
Iowa
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
J.F. Taylor
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
J.R. Thomas
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Jagiellonian
Jagiellonian Library, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Jewish Theological
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York
Jordan
Mrs. Elizabeth Jordan, Tilford, England
Juckes
George T. Juckes & Co., book dealers, London
Kansas
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Karpeles
The Karpeles Manuscript Library, Santa Barbara, California
Kelley
Philip Kelley, Winfield, Kansas
Kent State
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Kentucky
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Kerr
S. Parnell Kerr, buyer from Browning Collections
Kincaid
Arthur N. Kincaid, Glenn Mills, Pennsylvania
King’s College
King’s College, London
King’s School
King’s School, Canterbury, England
Knebworth
Knebworth House, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England
Knoedler
M. Knoedler & Co., art dealers, New York, buyer from Browning Collections
KS
Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, Rome, Italy
Lambeth
Lambeth Palace Library, London
Lasner
Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware
Last Poems (Morgan)
Notebook containing manuscript drafts of EBB’s poem, used as printer’s copy for Last Poems (1862), now at Yale University (see Reconstruction, D1409)
Last Poems (Yale)
Notebook containing manuscripts of EBB’s poems, used as printer's copy for Last Poems (1862), now at Yale University (see Reconstruction, D1409)
Lauder
A.P. Lauder, agent at Browning Collections for Mr. E.H. Van Ingen, New York.
Lawrences
Lawrences Auctioneers, Crewkerne, England.
Lawson
E.M. Lawson & Co., book dealers, Birmingham, England
LC
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
LCP
Library Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
LEBB
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. Frederic G. Kenyon, 2 vols. (London, 1897)
Leeds Univ
The Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds, England
Leighton
J. & J. Leighton, book dealers, London
Leighton House
Leighton House, London
Lenygon
Messrs. Lenygon, decorating firm, 31 Old Burlington Street, London
Lever
Lady Lever Art Gallery, The Walker Gallery, Liverpool, England
Lilly
The Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Lindow
Buyer from Browning Collections, residing (1913) at 15 George Lane, Folkestone
LL
Learned Lady: Letters from Robert Browning to Mrs. Thomas FitzGerald, ed. Edward C. McAleer (Cambridge, Mass., 1966)
London Library
London Library, London
Longfellow
Longfellow National Historic Site, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lords
Parliamentary Archives, House of Lords Record Office, London
Lowndes
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Loyola Marymount
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California
LRB
Letters of Robert Browning, ed. Thurman L. Hood (New Haven, 1933)
MacDonnell
Kevin MacDonnell, Austin, Texas
Maddox
D.J. Maddox, Hereford, England
Maggs
Maggs Bros., Ltd., book dealers, London
Marciana
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, Italy
Marinelli
Ferdinando Marinelli, Florence, Italy
Mariners’ Museum
Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia
Marucelliana
Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence, Italy
Mathews
Elkin Mathews, book seller, Bishop’s Stortford, England
Matteucci
Instituto Matteucci, Viareggio, Italy
Maurice
A. Maurice & Co., book dealers, London
Mayhew
Alfred H. Mayhew, book seller, London
Maynard
John Maynard, Browning’s Youth (Cambridge, Mass. & London, 1977)
McGill
McGill University, Montreal
Meredith
Michael Meredith, Eton, England
Messer
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Mexer
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Meynell
Wilfrid Meynell and various members of his family who formed a syndicate to purchase from Browning Collections
MFA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
MHS
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts
Michelmore
G. Michelmore & Co., book dealers, London
Mills
Mills College, Oakland, California
Minards
Unidentifed buyer from Browning Collections
Minnesota
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minns
Dr. Jonathan E. Minns, Hove, England
Miss Baddeley
Distant Browning cousin, buyer from Browning Collections
Miss Frere
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Mississippi
University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi
Mitchell
Mrs. Douglas Mitchell, Henley-on-Thames, England
Mock
Mrs. C.L. Mock, Baltimore, Maryland
Montana
Montana State University, Missoula, Montana
More Fugitives
William Whitla, “Four More Fugitives by Robert Browning,” N & Q, 219 (1974), 448–453
Morgan
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Morgan, Ray Bequest
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Gordon N. Ray Bequest
Moulton-Barrett Papers
The Moulton-Barrett Family Papers, acquired by the Berg Collection, 1965. See BNL, 2 (April 1969), 10–12
Moulton-Barrett Sale
The Papers of Lt.-Col. Harry Peyton Moulton-Barrett ... Sold by Sotheby & Co., 7 June 1937. Reprinted in BIS, 5 (1977), 105–185
Mrs. Barclay
Florence Barclay, author of The Rosary, buyer from Browning Collections
Mrs. Patterson
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Mrs. Reid
Unidentifed buyer from Browning Collections
MS Asolando
Printer’s copy for Asolando (1890), now at Morgan Library (see Reconstruction, E0022)
MS Dramatic Idyls I
Printer’s copy for Dramatic Idyls (1879), now at Balliol College (see Reconstruction, E0092)
MS Dramatic Idyls II
Printer’s copy for Dramatic Idyls Second Series (1880), now at Balliol College (see Reconstruction, E0094)
MS Dramatis Personae
Printer’s copy for Dramatis Personae (1864), now at Morgan Library (see Reconstruction, E0101)
MS Ferishtah’s Fancies
Printer’s copy for Ferishtah’s Fanices (1884), now at Balliol College (see Reconstruction, E0127)
MS Jocoseria
Printer’s copy for Jocoseria (1883), now at Balliol College (see Reconstruction, E0212)
MS Pacchiarotto
Printer’s copy for Pacchiarotto (1876), now at Balliol College (see Reconstruction, E0305)
MS Parleyings
Printer’s copy of Parleyings (1887), now at Balliol College (see Reconstruction, E0341)
MSS by EBB
Notebook containing 16 drafts of poems by EBB, offered for sale by Maggs, Catalogue 340 (1915), item 1559 (see Reconstruction, D1411)
MTB
Michael Meredith, Meeting the Brownings (Waco, Texas, 1986)
MTL
Mark Twain Library, Redding, Connecticut
Murray
John R. Murray, London
N&Q
Notes & Queries
N.H. Smith
N. Herbert Smith, Fannie Browning’s English solicitor who purchased from Browning Collections on behalf of his client
Nakaoka
Hiroshi Nakaoka, Tokyo, Japan
Nasmyth
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Neumayer
Friedrich B. Neumayer, book seller, London
New Brunswick
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
New Poems
New Poems by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. F.G. Kenyon (London, 1914)
New York Academy
New York Academy of Medicine, New York
Newberry
Newberry Library, Chicago
Newcastle
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Newnham
Newnham College, Cambridge, England
Nicol
G. & W. Nicol, book dealers, London
NL
New Letters of Robert Browning, ed. W.C. DeVane and K.L. Knickerbocker (New Haven and London, 1950)
North Carolina
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire Record Office, Northampton, England
Northwestern
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Norwich
Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire Archives, Nottingham, England
NPG
National Portrait Gallery, London
NYBS
New York Browning Society, New York
NYHS
New-York Historical Society, New York
NYPL-Ms
Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York
NYPL-RB
Rare Book Division, New York Public Library, New York
O.S. Withers
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Oatley
Mrs. V.H. Oatley, Kingsbridge, England
Ohio Historical
Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio
Ohio State
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Wesleyan
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Old Dominion
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Oregon
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Owen
John Owen, Mayfield, England
Oxford Edition
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Oxford Complete Edition (London, 1904)
Parke Bernet
Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., auctioneers, New York (later Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co.)
Parry
Mrs. Glynne Parry, Dyfed, Wales
Pembroke
Pembroke College, Oxford
Penn State
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pettigrew
Robert Browning: The Poems, ed. John Pettigrew, 2 vols. (New Haven, 1981)
Pforzheimer
The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation, New York
Phelps
Dryden Phelps, Berkeley, California
Philadelphia
Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pocket Notebook I
Pocket notebook containing manuscripts by EBB, now at Wellesley College (see Reconstruction, D1416)
Pocket Notebook II
Pocket notebook containing manuscripts by EBB, now at Wellesley College (see Reconstruction, D1416)
Poems 1850
Two volumes of corrected printed pages used as printer's copy for Poems (1850), now at Wellesley College (see Reconstruction, D0722)
Poems and Sonnets
Notebooks containing manuscripts entitled by EBB “Poems and Sonnets,” now at Yale University (see Reconstruction, D1417)
Poems Before Congress
Notebook used as printer’s copy for Poems Before Congress (1860), now at University of Texas (see Reconstruction, D1418)
Poems by EBB
Notebook in the hands of EBB and Mary Moulton-Barrett entitled “Poems by Elizabeth B. Barrett,” now in the Berg Collection (see Reconstruction, D1419)
Poems by EBB II
Collection of EBB’s compositions in the hand of Mary Moulton-Barrett, now in the Berg Collection (see Reconstruction, D1420)
Pope, A.C.R.
A.C.R. Pope, London
Porter and Clarke
The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, eds. Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, 6 vols. (New York, 1900; reprinted, 1973)
Princeton
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton Art Museum
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
PRO
Public Record Office, London
Purefoy
Geoffrey Purefoy, Shalstone, England
Pushkin
Pushkin Academy, Institute of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
Quaritch
Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., book dealers, London
R. Norton
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
RA
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Radcliffe
Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts
RB
Robert Browning
RB, Sr.
Robert Browning, Sr., father of the poet
RBB
Robert Barrett Browning, son of the poets
RBB Notebook
Notebook containing a record of the paintings of RBB, 1875-1881, now in the British Library. See Reconstruction, L0052, for full details
RBEB
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845–1846, 2 vols. (London, 1899)
Reading
Reading Central Library, Reading, England
Reading Univ
University of Reading, England
Reconstruction
The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction, comps. Philip Kelley and Betty A. Coley (London, New York, Waco, Texas, and Winfield, Kansas, 1984)
Riverside
University of California, Riverside, California
Robson
Robson & Co., book dealers, London
Rochester
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Rodenan
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Roe
Mary Rose Roe, Bristol, England
Rogers
Arthur Rogers, book seller, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
Romanelli
Tullio Romanelli, Pen Browning’s Florentine friend and estate manager
Rosebery
The Earl of Rosebery, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh
Rosenbach
A.S.W. Rosenbach, book seller, Philadelphia and New York
Rosenbach Museum
Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rossetti
The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ed. William E. Fredeman, 10 vols. (Cambridge, 2002–15)
Rowfant
The Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio
Royal College
Royal College of Physicians, London
RSM
Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain, London
Rudkin
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Rutgers
Rutgers—The State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Rylands
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, England
S. Young
Stark Young, editor of The New Republic and buyer from Browning Collections
Sabin
Frank T. Sabin, book and art dealer, London
Saito
Takeshi Saito, Tokyo, Japan
San Diego
San Diego Public Library, San Diego, California
San Francisco
University of San Francisco, California
San Simeon
Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California
Santa Barbara
University of California at Santa Barbara, California
Santa Cruz
University of California at Santa Cruz, California
Sawyer
Charles J. Sawyer, Ltd., book dealers, London
SB
Sarianna Browning, sister of the poet
SBHC
Studies in Browning and His Circle (Waco, Texas, 1973-
Schuetz
Melvin H. Schuetz, Waco, Texas
Scotland
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Scott & O’Shaughnessy
Scott & O’Shaughnessy, auctioneers, New York
Scraps
Manuscript fragments inscribed by EBB “Scraps,” now in Berg Collection (see Reconstruction, D1421)
Scripps
The Browning Collection, The Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont, California
Sensabaugh
George F. Sensabaugh, Jr., Berkeley, California
Seraphim
Notebook containing manuscript drafts of EBB's poems, most of which appeared in The Seraphim, and Other Poems (1838). Offered for sale by Sotheby’s, 21 July 2022, lot 1008, (see D1421.1).
Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-on-Avon, England
Shepherd
J. Shepherd, book seller, London
Shores
Mrs. Lucille P. Shores, Hartford, Connecticut
Shropshire
Shropshire Record Office, Shrewsbury, England
Smith
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Smith, Celia
Celia Smith, Beaminster, Dorset, England
Smith, Elder
Smith, Elder & Co., publishers, London
Smithsonian
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Sockett
Hugh Sockett, Leesburg, Virginia
Sonnets
Notebook of manuscripts entitled by EBB “Sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Barrett 1842,” now at Armstrong Browning Library (see Reconstruction, D1422)
Sotheby’s
Sotheby & Co., auctioneers, London and New York
Sotheran
Henry Sotheran & Co., book dealers, London
South Carolina
University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
South Florida
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
South London
South London Art Gallery, London
Southern Illinois
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Southwark
Southwark Archives, London
Speelman
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Spencer
Walter T. Spencer, book seller, London
Spero
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Spinks
Spink & Son, Ltd., art dealers, London
St. Andrews
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
St. Marylebone
St. Marylebone Parish Church, London
Stanford
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Sterling, J.A.L.
J.A.L. Sterling, London
Strutz
William A. Strutz, Bismarck, North Dakota
SUNY-Buffalo
State University of New York at Buffalo, New York
Sweeny
Arthur Sweeny, Jr., Pleasantville, New York
Swiss Church
Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church, Florence, Italy
Syracuse
University of Syracuse, Syracuse, New York
Tayler
Mrs. H.M. Tayler, London
Taylor Coll
R.H. Taylor Collection, Princeton University, New Jersey
TCU
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
Teller
Mrs. Barbara Teller, Boston, Massachusetts
Temple
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tennessee
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Tennyson Centre
Tennyson Research Centre, Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England
Tennyson, J.
James Tennyson, New Zealand
Texas
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Texas Catalogue
Catalogue of the Browning Collection, comp. Warner Barnes (Austin, 1966)
TLS
The Times Literary Supplement
Toronto
University of Toronto, Canada
Tragi-Comedy
Maisie Ward, The Tragi-Comedy of Pen Browning (New York, 1972)
Tregaskis
James Tregaskis, book seller, London
Trinity
Trinity College, Cambridge, England
Tulsa
McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Turnbull
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Tx A&M
Yeats Browning Collection, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
UCLA
Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles, California
ULL
University of London Library, London
Union Theological
Union Theological Seminary, New York
University College
University College, London
V&A
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
van Straaten
Art dealer, buyer from Browning Collections
Vermont
The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
VHS
Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
Victoria
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Virginia
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Vizcaya
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida
W. Manning
Westley Manning, book seller, London
W. Roberts
William Roberts, sale-room correspondent of The Times, buyer from Browning Collections
W.B. Hill
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
W.E. Brown
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
W.H. Edwards
W.H. Edwards, Ltd., book dealers, London
Wachs
The Gerald N. and Glorya D. Wachs Collection of 19th-Century English Poetry, Short Hills, New Jersey
Wallington
Wallington Hall, Northumberland, England
Ware
E.J. Ware, Horsham, England
Washington State Univ
The Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Washington Univ
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Watkinson
Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Webb
Mrs. Webb, Charing Heath, England
Wellcome
Wellcome Library, London
Wellesley
Wellesley College Library, The English Poetry Collection, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Wells
S. Wells, unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, London.
Westminster Bank
National Westminster Bank, London
William Jewell
William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri
Williams
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Williams College
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Winterthur
Winterthur Library, Winterthur, Delaware
Worcester
Worcester College Library, Oxford, England
Works of EBB
The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. Sandra Donaldson et al., 5 vols. (London, 2010)
Woudhuysen
H.R. Woudhuysen, London, England
Wreathall
Unidentified buyer from Browning Collections
Yaddo
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
Yale
Yale University, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut
Yale Art
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut