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ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889); LAURENCE BINYON (1869-1943) & OTHER AUTHORS
A one-page autograph letter, signed, by Browning, from 29 De Vere Gardens, W., July 19th 1888, to an unidentified correspondent, thanking him for sending a poem and commenting: "The writer has no few qualifications for writing verse -- I should like a little more independence with regard to some of his predecessors;" a three-page autograph letter, signed, by Binyon, from 3 Matheson Road, West Kensington, to Edward O'Every Leggatt (of Lincoln College, Oxford), saying he has been unable to write on the subject of top-hats but sending a poem on Tennyson instead: "I really havent had time to be inspired [on] Top-hats. Wait till those scrannel lines of Mr. Dyer and the Ruins of Rome have put me into the proper funeral mood for such a black subject. Meanwhile I send you this as a sop -- some profane verses on your idol Tennyson," with the poem itself, "Peerless Poet v. Poet-Peer," in Binyon's hand (first line: "I see thee cloak'd about thy chair"); together with 12 other letters by various literary figures, including Walter Besant and G.P.R. James, the majority addressed to Edward Leggatt, and approximately 14 clipped signatures, including Edmund Gosse.
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A one-page autograph letter, signed, by Browning, from 29 De Vere Gardens, W., July 19th 1888, to an unidentified correspondent, thanking him for sending a poem and commenting: "The writer has no few qualifications for writing verse -- I should like a little more independence with regard to some of his predecessors;" a three-page autograph letter, signed, by Binyon, from 3 Matheson Road, West Kensington, to Edward O'Every Leggatt (of Lincoln College, Oxford), saying he has been unable to write on the subject of top-hats but sending a poem on Tennyson instead: "I really havent had time to be inspired [on] Top-hats. Wait till those scrannel lines of Mr. Dyer and the Ruins of Rome have put me into the proper funeral mood for such a black subject. Meanwhile I send you this as a sop -- some profane verses on your idol Tennyson," with the poem itself, "Peerless Poet v. Poet-Peer," in Binyon's hand (first line: "I see thee cloak'd about thy chair"); together with 12 other letters by various literary figures, including Walter Besant and G.P.R. James, the majority addressed to Edward Leggatt, and approximately 14 clipped signatures, including Edmund Gosse.
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