Autograph Letter, signed ("Elizabeth Barrett Browning"), with Autograph Song "May's Love"
Florence: c. 1848-1861.
Price: $30,000.00
About the item
2 leaves; docketed No. 200 and Song 96. 12mo. Faded, the poem annotated with the number 96 and the letter with "No 200" in a contemporary hand, old folds.
Item #346572
Browning writes, sending a poem at that point unpublished:
"Sir, You ask me for a short unpublished poem, and I send you a very short one – a song. I hope it may not be unsuitable to your purpose, while wishing it were worthier; and I have the honor to remain / Sir, Your obedient servant / Eliizabeth Barrett Browning / Casa Guidi, Florence / June 12"
On the verso of one leaf the letter is translated into French, and it's accompanied by another leaf with the poem "May's Love", three quintains, published posthumously in Last Poems (1962).
