Life and Letters of Robert Browning
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Date
2006
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Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
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most cases given to me by the persons to whom they were addressed, or copied by Miss
Browning from the originals under her care; but I owe to the daughter of the Rev. W. J. Fox—
Mrs. Bridell Fox—those written to her father and to Miss Flower; the two interesting extracts
from her father's correspondence with herself and Mr. Browning's note to Mr. Robertson.
For my general material I have been largely indebted to Miss Browning. Her memory was the
only existing record of her brother's boyhood and youth. It has been to me an unfailing as well as
always accessible authority for that subsequent period of his life which I could only know in
disconnected facts or his own fragmentary reminiscences. It is less true, indeed, to say that she
has greatly helped me in writing this short biography than that without her help it could never
have been undertaken.
I thank my friends Mrs. R. Courtenay Bell and Miss Hickey for their invaluable assistance in
preparing the book for, and carrying it through the press; and I acknowledge with real gratitude
the advantages derived by it from Mr. Dykes Campbell's large literary experience in his very
careful final revision of the proofs.
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77 p.
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Browning, Robert