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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING. An album of sketches and manuscript copies by the Barrett's and their circle, c. 1831. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. An album of sketches and manuscript copies by the Barrett's and their circle, including 'The Sea Side Walk' signed 'EBB' with a note 'Sidmouth August 17th, Monday evening, 1835', 2pp., and a further untitled poem, commencing 'For ever since my childhood looks/Could rest on nature's pictured books..', in six stanzas, also signed 'EBB', 2pp., together with a watercolour sketch by J. Varley, signed in pencil, and other sketches and drawings, the title page inscribed 'Arabella Barrett, Hope End June 13th 1831', contemporary morocco, 4to; together with a notebook with an outline for a play, possibly by Octavius Barrett Browning.
PROVENANCE: From the family of Octavius Moulton-Barrett (1824-1910), youngest brother of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, thence by descent.
RARE. The album was a gift to Arabella Moulton-Barrett from Eliza Cliffe. 'The Sea Side Walk' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was first published in The Athenaeum. 2 July 1836, and collected in 'The Seraphim, and Other Poems', 1838. This appears to be a fair copy in the author's hand. The untitled poem is 'Minstrelsy', and also a fair copy in the author's hand. The album also contains 'A Short Catechism on the Subject of Albums' by Edward Moulton-Barrett, 2pp., several lines from William Wordsworth's 'The Fountain', transcribed by Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, and a copy of 'A Couplet, Written in a Volume of Poems...' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, transcribed by Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 1p. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. An album of sketches and manuscript copies by the Barrett's and their circle, including 'The Sea Side Walk' signed 'EBB' with a note 'Sidmouth August 17th, Monday evening, 1835', 2pp., and a further untitled poem, commencing 'For ever since my childhood looks/Could rest on nature's pictured books..', in six stanzas, also signed 'EBB', 2pp., together with a watercolour sketch by J. Varley, signed in pencil, and other sketches and drawings, the title page inscribed 'Arabella Barrett, Hope End June 13th 1831', contemporary morocco, 4to; together with a notebook with an outline for a play, possibly by Octavius Barrett Browning.
PROVENANCE: From the family of Octavius Moulton-Barrett (1824-1910), youngest brother of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, thence by descent.
RARE. The album was a gift to Arabella Moulton-Barrett from Eliza Cliffe. 'The Sea Side Walk' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was first published in The Athenaeum. 2 July 1836, and collected in 'The Seraphim, and Other Poems', 1838. This appears to be a fair copy in the author's hand. The untitled poem is 'Minstrelsy', and also a fair copy in the author's hand. The album also contains 'A Short Catechism on the Subject of Albums' by Edward Moulton-Barrett, 2pp., several lines from William Wordsworth's 'The Fountain', transcribed by Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, and a copy of 'A Couplet, Written in a Volume of Poems...' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, transcribed by Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 1p.
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