Album of autograph letters and poems : [Boston], [19th century].

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Album of autograph letters and poems : [Boston], [19th century].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270511741

An autograph album of ca. 93 blank pages of various colors, some with printed or embossed decorative frames, with an engraving of Shakespeare on p. 2, probably supplied by the album-maker. Glued onto almost every page are autograph poems and letters of major nineteenth-century English and American authors, friends of Mrs. Fields or visitors to her home and library at 148 Charles Street, Boston. The album also includes a picture of Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning (MA 925.59) and photographs of Annie Fields (MA 925.91) and Algernon Charles Swinburne (MA 925.92). Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 925.1-92).

1 v. (92 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 30cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7182508

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Browning, Robert Wiedemann Barrett, 1849-1912

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Robert Browning was a British poet. He married Elizabeth Barrett in 1826 From the guide to the Robert Browning collection of papers, 1835?]-1933, 1835?-1889, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) ...

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909

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British poet. From the description of The descent into hell [manuscript poem], 1873 Jan. 9. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 41416044 From the description of Autograph quotation, [ca. 1890?]. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 315968127 Swinburne (1837-1909) was an English lyric poet, dramatist, and critic of the Victorian era. He was famous for the innovative versification of his poetry and infamous for his violent attacks on Victorian morality. ...

Fields, Annie, 1834-1915

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Annie Adams Fields was an author and charity worker, the wife of the Boston publisher James T. Fields. From the description of Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 86143813 From the guide to the Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Eighteen letters written by Annie Adams Fields between the years 1882 and...