677. RB to John Payne Collier [1]
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 4, 113.
[London]
[ca. 1839] [2]
Offered for sale in Sotheby’s Catalogue, 22 March 1905, lot 327. 1 p., 4to. RB apologizes for troubling Collier without an introduction. He is going out of town, hence he writes: “Mr Browning is desirous of obtaining Mr Collier’s permission to look over the MS Ballad ‘The Atheist’s Tragedy,’ of which mention is made in the ‘Further Particulars, &c’, [3] as it would be of essential service to him in a work he is about to begin. … He will call anytime convenient.”
1. John Payne Collier (1789-1883), reporter, author and Shakespearean critic.
2. Dated by the reference to Collier’s book.
3. Farther Particulars Regarding Shakespeare and His Works (1839), derived mainly from material in the Earl of Bridgewater’s library.
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