Correspondence

5904.  Messrs. Ticknor & Fields to RB

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 32, 201.

No. 124 Tremont Street, Boston

May 14 1867.

Robert Browning Esq.

Dear Sir,

We accept the terms proposed by you to our Mr Osgood [1] for the privilege of republishing your new poem in America, namely, Two Hundred Pounds Sterling. [2] We will write you again in a few days, respecting the manner in which the sheets should be forwarded.

Mr Fields desires his compliments and the thanks of Mrs Fields for the photographs, which she greatly likes.

We are, dear Sir,

Faithfully yours

Ticknor & Fields:

Publication: Louise Greer, Browning and America (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1952), p. 227.

Manuscript: Manuscripts Division, New York Public Library.

1. James R. Osgood (1836–92), American publisher. He entered the trade as a clerk to Ticknor and Fields and, by 1864, became a partner. The firm was reorganized in 1868 as Fields, Osgood, and Company; and after Fields’s retirement in 1871, as James R. Osgood and Company.

2. For the American rights to The Ring and the Book.

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