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ROBERT BROWNING (1812-89)
A copy of John Nettleship's Robert Browning. Essays and Thoughts, London, Elkin Mathews, 1890, 8°, contemporary half morocco (lightly scuffed), with 2 tipped in a.l.s., one a 4pp. a.l.s by Browning dated 29 De Vere Gardens, W., August 24th 1889, to John Nettleship, discussing a theological issue in his own poetry, occasionally annotated in pencil by Nettleship, the other a 3pp. a.l.s. by Nettleship, dated 60 Wigmore St. W., 21 February 1890, to Miss Mathews, stating that 'the enclosed letter from Browning [is] the last he ever wrote me. I had asked him a critical question about the simile of the lamp ... (Death in the Desert) and he has replied as you see by a prose interpretation of the whole passage which indeed I was not in need of; and the critical question remains unanswered to the end of time ... the pencil marks are mine ... they help to explain the explanation!'
A copy of John Nettleship's Robert Browning. Essays and Thoughts, London, Elkin Mathews, 1890, 8°, contemporary half morocco (lightly scuffed), with 2 tipped in a.l.s., one a 4pp. a.l.s by Browning dated 29 De Vere Gardens, W., August 24th 1889, to John Nettleship, discussing a theological issue in his own poetry, occasionally annotated in pencil by Nettleship, the other a 3pp. a.l.s. by Nettleship, dated 60 Wigmore St. W., 21 February 1890, to Miss Mathews, stating that 'the enclosed letter from Browning [is] the last he ever wrote me. I had asked him a critical question about the simile of the lamp ... (Death in the Desert) and he has replied as you see by a prose interpretation of the whole passage which indeed I was not in need of; and the critical question remains unanswered to the end of time ... the pencil marks are mine ... they help to explain the explanation!'