The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett by Robert Browning
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The Letters of Robert Browning and
Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846, Edited by Robert B. Browning
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Title: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
Author: Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Editor: Robert B. Browning
Release Date: July 2, 2005 [EBook #16182]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE LETTERS
OF
ROBERT BROWNING
AND
ELIZABETH BARRETT BARRETT
1845-1846
WITH PORTRAITS AND FACSIMILES
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.
FOURTH IMPRESSION
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1900
[Illustration: Robert Browning
from an oil painting by Gordigiani]
NOTE
In considering the question of publishing these letters, which are all that ever passed between my father and mother, for after their marriage they were never separated, it seemed to me that my only alternatives were to allow them to be published or to destroy them. I might, indeed, have left the matter to the decision of others after my death, but that would be evading a responsibility which I feel that I ought to accept.
Ever since my mother's death these letters were kept by my father in a certain inlaid box,