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Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 839
Overview:
The Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning collection is a mixed-provenance collection of material by and related to Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Series I, Robert Browning Papers, contains a few manuscripts by him, as well as many letters, most written after 1870. Recipients include Mrs. Bayne; Isabel Jane Blagden; Moncure Conway; Charles Deschamps; Frank Hill; William Charles Macready; Felix Moscheles, and William Wetmore Story. Letters to Browning include an...
Dates:
1835-1906 1850-1889, bulk 1850-1889
Fowler & Wells Portrait Posters for Physiognomy Lectures
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1000
Overview:
A set of nineteen posters with 112 bust portraits depicting identified men and women, primarily authors, artists, scientists, monarchs, and religious and political leaders from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a group of idealized heads illustrating characteristics identified by phrenologists.
Dates:
circa 1860