Autograph letter signed : Florence, to [Edward] Chapman, 1857 Jan. 5.

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Autograph letter signed : Florence, to [Edward] Chapman, 1857 Jan. 5.

Asking him to send the account for his books and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "at the earliest possible moment"; wondering how E.B. Browning's new edition of poems is selling; reporting that Ruskin wrote to him and called Aurora Leigh "the greatest poem in the English language"; asking him to send copies of Aurora Leigh.

1 item (3 p.) ; 13.3 cm.

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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

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