BROWNING, ROBERT. Autograph manuscript of a portion of the poem "Hervé Riel," ("On the sea and at the Hague, Sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, - woe to France!..."), a fair copy, [published in 1871]. 2 pages, 4to, 51 lines in 6 stanzas, written on rectos only of two leaves of lined paper, first page evenly browned, bound in red morocco gilt, g.e., by Riviere, joints cracked, spine a bit rubbed. Browning's eleven-stanza poem recounts the heroism of a celebrated French naval officer. The poem was printed first in the Cornhill Magazine, March 1871. Browning donated the proceeds from publication of the poem to a fund to aid Parisians who had suffered during the Franco-Prussian War. The verses were first collected in his Pacchiarotto (London, 1876). The present manuscript is noted in Kelley and Coley's The Browning Collections: A Reconstruction, E167. Only one other manuscript of the poem is extant, in the Pierpont Morgan Library (see Kelley and Coley, E166).