Addressed to my beloved Storm on his birthday : autograph manuscript signed : Hope End, Ledbury, 1822 December 28.

Record ID: 
403256
Accession number: 
MA 8917.14
Author: 
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Credit: 
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.7 x 18.6 cm
Summary: 

A poem of 21 lines, beginning "The chords, the Minstrels fingers strike/ Now proudly soar, now softly sigh...". Written for her brother Charles (who she calls "Storm", his family nickname) on his eighth birthday.

Provenance: 
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.