TEN LETTERS OF ROBERT BROWNING CONCERNING MISS ALMA MURRAY (Mrs. Alfred Forman).
Pp. 20(last colophon); post 8vo; grey/brown paper wrappers, stabbed & tied with cord, upper wrapper printed in black, the wrapper edges slightly creased and browned; uncut; pages 9/10 slightly creased; printed for private circulation, Edinburgh, 1929. Edition limited to thirty copies, printed for M. Buxton Forman, Pretoria. *Ten letters, written between 1885 and 1889, seven of which are addressed to Alma Murray, an actress who had performed in one of Robert Browning's plays. Two of the other letters are to Dr. F. J. Furnivall, and one is to Sydney E. Preston. Frederick James Furnivall (1825-1910) was co-founder and second editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the founder of several literary societies, including the Browning Society. The young Thomas J. Wise, also a member of the Browning Society, was introduced to the poet by Furnivall in 1886. Maurice Buxton Forman was the son of Wise's associate Harry Buxton Forman. Item #157768
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