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The majority are letters written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The collection is comprised of: \n\n- 36 letters written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning addressed to her friend, the writer Mary Russell Mitford between 1840-1853\n- 4 letters written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning addressed to her friend, the poet and critic Richard Henry Horne between 1843-44\n- 26 letters addressed to Sarianna Browning, sister of Robert Browning. 21 of these are written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 4 of them alongside Robert Browning. 5 letters are written by Sarianna and Robert Browning's father, Robert Browning Senior. These letters were written between 1851-1862\n- 57 letters addressed to the writer Euphrasia Fanny Haworth. 55 of these are written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 1 is written by Sarianna Browning and 1 by the writer Isa Blagden\n- 173 letters addressed to the writer Isa Blagden. 172 of these are written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 1 is written by an anonymous author nicknamed 'Harry'\n- 16 letters addressed to Robert Browning, from a variety of correspondents including his father Robert Browning Senior, William Bracken and Guiseppe Mazzini. \n- 4 letters addressed to various correspondents, including Anna Jameson, Anne Braun and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Two of these letters are written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning\n- 16 loose papers authored by various individuals including Robert Browning Senior, Sally Prudhomme and Hans Christian Anderson.  \n\nAs per 'Florentine Friends: The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning to Isa Blagden 1850-1861' (ed. by Philip Kelley and Sandra Dondaldson), this collection was purchased by Charles Fairfax Murray in 1913 during the Sotheby's auction of the Brownings' archives. This collection was given by Charles Fairfax Murray to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1917. Murray also purchased approximately 140 letters written by Robert Browning which were transferred or sold to several parties: Maggs Brothers (London book dealers), Thomas J. Wise, and Baylor University in Waco, Texas.\n\nSome letters are incomplete and split across the Fitzwilliam Museum and other repositories such as: Wellesley College, Folger Shakespeare Library, Eton College Library, Lilly Library, Scripps College, Armstrong Browning Library. Where such separation has occurred, it is indicated in the item level record. Other repositories that hold the correspondence and autograph manuscripts of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning include: the Harry Ransom Centre at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, Balliol College and the Bodlein Library at the University of Oxford."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"GBR\/280\/MS.1.R-1917","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"GBR\/280\/MS.1.R-1917"},{"priref":"110000414","type":"priref","value":"110000414"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110000414","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110000414"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1840,"from":{"earliest":1840,"latest":1840,"value":"1840"},"latest":1883,"range":true,"to":{"earliest":1883,"latest":1883,"value":"1883"}}],"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-164438","uid":"adlib-agent-164438","uuid":"134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51"},"summary_title":"Browning, Elizabeth Barrett"},{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-18959","uid":"adlib-agent-18959","uuid":"39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14"},"summary_title":"Browning, Robert"}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"value":"334 items"}]},"summary_title":"Browning Collection","title":[{"value":"Browning Collection"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}