Publisher’s Query

A checklist of all recorded letters written by or to Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning is found at The Brownings: A Research Guide (www.browningguide.org).

If you know of other letters, please share that information with us by e-mail to the editors.

We are also interested in the present location of these Browning letters:

  • Aberdare, Lady. Letter from RB. 26 May 1881.
  • Aberdeen, Lady. Letter from RB. 23 May 1885.
  • Adams, William Davenport. Letter from RB. 6 October 1877.
  • Agati, Dendy. Letter from RB. 17 February 1873.
  • Aidé, Charles Hamilton. Letter from RB. 19 June 1879.
  • Alford, Marion. Letter from RB. 24 September 1869.
  • Alma-Tadema, Laura Teresa. Letter from RB. 6 February 1878.
  • Appleton, B.B. Letter from RB. [mid-July 1861].
  • Arnold, Edwin. Letter to RB. 23 July 1873.
  • Arnold, Edwin. Letter from RB. 2 July 1886.
  • Astley, Miss. Letter from RB. 22 April 1887.
  • Balfour of Burleigh, Lady. Letter from RB. 11 June 1886.
  • Bancroft, Lady. Letter to RB. 3 July [1888].
  • Barnand, Arthur. Letter from RB. 9 June 1883.
  • Bell, Mrs. Letter from RB. 25 January 1887.
  • Bennett, William Cox. Letter from EBB. 5 July 1840.
  • Bennett, William Cox. 3 letters from RB. 1882–83.
  • Bernard-Beere, Fannie M. Letter from RB. 22 March 1884.
  • Bethell, Augusta. Letter from RB. 14 April 1872.
  • Blagden, Isa. 2 letters from RB. 27 March [1860] & 21 November 1860.
  • Blau, Henry. Letter to RB. [1884].
  • Blundell, Bezer. Letter from RB. 11 May 1864.
  • Bordman, Eleanor Page. Letter from EBB. July 1836.
  • Boughton, Katherine. 3 letters from RB. 1882–84.
  • Boyd, Hugh Stuart. Letter from EBB. 18 November 1842.
  • Boyd, Hugh Stuart. 130 letters to EBB. 1827–35.
  • Boyle, Mary Louisa. Letter from EBB. [7 September 1847].
  • Bradley, Marian. 2 letters from RB. 22 June 1886 & 16 June 1887.
  • Bridell, Eliza Fox. Letter from RB. 27 July 1871.
  • Browning, Louisa. Letter from RB. 20 March 1872.
  • Browning, Oscar. Letter from RB. 3 June 1875.
  • Browning, Reuben. Letter from EBB. 15 June 1861.
  • Browning, Reuben. 8 letters from RB. 1859–79.
  • Browning, Robert Barrett. Letter from RB. 1 May 1874.
  • Browning, Robert Jardine. Letter to RB. 1884.
  • Budden, Ada L. 2 letters from RB. 22 February 1879 & 28 June 1879.
  • Burnand, F.C. Letter from RB. 27 April 1886.
  • Burr, Margaretta. Letter from RB. June 1864.
  • Busk, Ellen. Letter from RB. 16 January 1878.
  • Caillard, Camille. 2 letters from RB. [ca. mid-February 1843] & [27 June 1845].
  • Carlyle, Mary. Letter to RB. [6 February 1881].
  • Carlyle, Thomas. 2 letters to RB. 13 April 1843 & 8 February 1845.
  • Carnarvon, Lord. Letter from RB. 25 May 1879.
  • Cartwright, Wanda. Letter from RB. 3 June 1879.
  • Cartwright, William Cornwallis. 2 letters from RB. 24 February 1865 & 1 July 1868.
  • Castle, Margaret Egerton. 2 letters from RB. 24 February 1878 & 7 May 1878.
  • Chambers, Mr. Letter from RB. 1888.
  • Chapman, Frederic. Letter from RB. 27 May 1868.
  • Childers, Mrs. Letter from RB. 26 April 1888.
  • Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Letter from RB. 12 February 1861.
  • Coddington, Almira Haxton. Letter from RB. [?November 1872].
  • Colburn, Henry. Letter from EBB. [July 1822].
  • Colvile, Lady. 2 letters from RB. 18 April 1869 & 18 March 1886.
  • Colvin, Sidney. 5 letters from RB. 1877–88.
  • Combermere, Lady. Letter from RB. 23 November 1870.
  • Cook, Keningale. Letter from RB. [early February] 1879.
  • Cooke, Willis. Letter from RB. 14 May 1888.
  • Courtenay, Louisa Bithia. Letter from EBB. [23 November 1853].
  • Courtenay, Louisa Bithia. Letter from RB. [?10 May] [1862].
  • de Chatelain, Chevalier. 2 letters from RB. 23 March 1867 & 10 February 1880.
  • Dilke, Lady. Letter from RB. 29 January 1873.
  • Drew, Mary Gladstone. Letter from RB. 18 January 1888.
  • Duff-Gordon, Georgianna Catherine. 3 letters from RB. 12 March, 1 May, & 12 June 1880.
  • Eastwick, William Joseph. Letter from RB. 6 February 1866.
  • Edinburgh, University of. Letter to RB. [February] 1884.
  • Egerton, Lady. Letter from RB. 5 March 1867.
  • Elborough, Miss. Letter from RB. 24 January 1881.
  • Eliot, George. 2 letters to RB. 24 March 1864 & 16 February 1874.
  • Enoch, Frederick. Letter from RB. 8 April 1869.
  • Farrar, Maud. Letter from RB. 27 July 1881.
  • Finch, Jamesina Wynne. Letter from RB. 9 January 1871.
  • FitzGerald, Elizabeth Purefoy. Letter from RB. 7 July 1888.
  • FitzGerald, Mary Frances Purefoy. Letter from RB. 19 March 1881.
  • Foote, G.W. Letter from RB. 16 February 1878.
  • Ford, Mary. Letter from RB. 27 January 1871.
  • Forman, Alma Murray. Letter to RB. 9 October 1887.
  • Forman, Harry Buxton. Letter from RB. 30 March 1881.
  • Forster, Eliza Ann. Letter from RB. [ca. 1866].
  • Forster, Elizabeth Marie. Letter from RB. 27 February 1878.
  • Forster, John. Letter from RB. 29 April 1862.
  • Frith, Mrs. Letter from RB. 4 July 1888.
  • Furnivall, Frederick James. 2 letters from RB. 18 November 1881 & 26 December 1881.
  • Gallenga, Antonio. Letter from EBB. [?14] [March 1859].
  • Gallenga, Antonio. Letter to RB. [February 1887].
  • Galton, Arthur. Letter from RB. 27 December 1886.
  • Galton, Arthur. Letter to RB. [ca. 1887].
  • Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. Letter to EBB. 15 December 1853.
  • Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. Letter to RB. Date unknown.
  • Gilchrist, Alexander. Letter to RB. 19 January 1855.
  • Gilchrist, Alexander. Letter from RB. 8 February 1855.
  • Gillespie, George Knox. 5 letters from RB. 1862–69.
  • Gillum, William. Letter from RB. 15 June 1860.
  • Gladstone, Mary. Letter from RB. 7 November 1870.
  • Gladstone, Mary. Letter to RB. [ca. 1 January] 1884.
  • Goethe, Wolfgang Maximilian von. Letter to RB. November 1850.
  • Gosse, Edmund. 5 letters from RB. 1875–84.
  • Greville, Beatrice Violet. Letter from RB. 25 April 1883.
  • Griffith, Charlotte. Letter from EBB. 13 September 1836.
  • Grove, George. Letter from RB. 24 November 1869.
  • Hallé, Charles. Letter from RB. 15 July 1879.
  • Hamerton, Philip Gilbert. 4 letters to RB. 1879–82.
  • Harrison, Clifford. 2 letters from RB. 24 June 1881 & 28 January 1886.
  • Hart, Mrs. Letter from RB. 16 June 1889.
  • Hatherley, Lady. 2 letters from RB. 8 May 1873 & 20 June 1876.
  • Haweis, Hugh Reginald. 7 letters from RB. 1880–87.
  • Haydon, Benjamin Robert. Letter to EBB. 9 December 1845.
  • Head, Barclay V. Letter to RB. 4 May 1875.
  • Henschel, George. Letter from RB. 2 March 1886.
  • Hewlett, Henry Gay. Letter from RB. 16 April 1873.
  • Hickey, Emily Henrietta. 2 letters to RB. [ca. 1883] & [mid-April 1883].
  • Hickey, Emily Henrietta. 3 letters from RB. 1882–89.
  • Hillard, Katharine. Letter from RB. 12 December 1873.
  • Hitchman, Francis. Letter to RB. 1886.
  • Hobart, Lady. Letter from RB. 18 February 1871.
  • Hobhouse, Lady. Letter from RB. 21 June 1881.
  • Horne, Richard Hengist. Letter from RB. 1879.
  • Howell, J.W. Letter from RB. 7 May 1879.
  • Howitt, Mary. Letter from EBB. 1 May [?1846].
  • Hunt, Alfred William. Letter from RB. [24 March] 1881.
  • Hunt, Leigh. Letter to EBB & RB. 31 December [1856–14 January 1857].
  • Huxley, Thomas Henry. Letter to RB. 11 February 1880.
  • Ireland, Mr. Letter from RB. 27 April 1889.
  • James, Lady. Letter from RB. 21 December 1876.
  • Jameson, Anna Brownell. Letter from EBB. 4 January [1853].
  • Jones, Mrs. Inwood. Letter from RB. 20 June 1872.
  • Kent, Charles. 3 letters from RB. 1872–86.
  • Kent, Charles. Letter to RB. [?18 March 1884].
  • Kenward, James. Letter from RB. 12 March 1870.
  • Kingsley, Fanny. Letter from RB. 13 November 1875.
  • Kirkup, Seymour. 15 letters to RB. Dates unknown.
  • Knight, Joseph. Letter from RB. 24 June 1871.
  • Knight, William Angus. Letter to RB. [19 September 1881].
  • Knightley, Louisa Mary. Letter from RB. 24 June 1880.
  • Knowles, James Thomas. 4 letters from RB. 1869–87.
  • Landor, Walter Savage. Letter to EBB. October 1844.
  • Landor, Walter Savage. Letter from RB. 14 April 1862.
  • Lane, Miss. Letter from RB. 31 August 1876.
  • Lang, Leonora Blanche. Letter to RB. [ca. October] 1882.
  • Law, Mr. Letter from RB. 18 November 1874.
  • Layard, Lady. Letter from RB. 18 February 1887.
  • Lehmann, Mrs. Letter from RB. 19 March 1875.
  • Leslie, Miss. Letter from RB. 19 February 1884.
  • Lewes, George Henry. 2 letters from RB. 24 April 1866 & 28 November 1866.
  • Lewis, Kate. Letter from RB. 26 April 1882.
  • Lewis, Mrs. 3 letters from RB. 1879–88.
  • Lindsay, Lady. Letter from RB. 23 December 1878.
  • Locker, Hannah Jane. Letter from RB. 13 December 1884.
  • Locker-Lampson, Frederick. 9 letters to RB & 1 letter to Sarianna Browning. 1870–90.
  • Lovejoy, George. Letter from RB. 20 February 1871.
  • Lowell, James Russell. 10 letters to RB. 1880–85.
  • Lyell, Lady. 2 letters from RB. 1868 & 17 June 1871.
  • Macmillan, Alexander. 2 letters from RB. 18 April 1867 & 16 October 1880.
  • Macquoid, Katharine Sarah. Letter from RB. 6 April 1881.
  • Macquoid, Thomas R. Letter from RB. 2 February 1881.
  • Macready, W.C. 13 letters to RB 1835–56.
  • Mahaffy, John Pentland. Letter to RB. [?November] 1878.
  • Mahony, Francis Sylvester. 4 letters to RB. 1847–50.
  • Marshall, Mary Alicia. Letter from RB. 10 July 1868.
  • Marston, John Westland. Letter from RB. 25 May 1870.
  • Martin, Theodore & Helena Faucit. Letter from RB. 1 July 1867.
  • Marzials, Frank Thomas. Letter from RB. 30 June 1875.
  • Massey, Gerald. 2 letters from RB. 15 March 1869 & 16 March 1872.
  • May, Florence. 6 letters from RB. Dates unknown.
  • Mayer, Samuel R.T. Letter from RB. 17 February 1870.
  • Meshfield, Mrs. Letter from RB. 15 March 1889.
  • Millais, Euphemia. Letter from RB. 18 July 1867.
  • Miller, Jean Morison Campbell. 2 letters from RB. 9 June 1884 & 8 February 1887.
  • Milnes, Richard Monckton. Letter from RB. 19 June 1882.
  • Milsand, Joseph. 31 letters to EBB & RB. 1853–85.
  • Morgan, Lady. Letter from RB. 1 June 1844.
  • Morley, Henry. Letter from RB. 14 January 1879.
  • Moscheles, Felix. 2 letters from RB. 13 July 1887 & 16 November 1887.
  • Moscheles, Margaret. Letter from RB. 18 July 1889.
  • Motley, Mary Elizabeth. Letter from RB. 21 March 1870.
  • Mount Temple, Lord. Letter from RB. 3 June 1881.
  • Moxon, Edward. Letter from RB. 18 May 1848.
  • Munby, Arthur Joseph. Letter from RB. 12 June 1882.
  • Murray, Douglas. Letter from RB. 17 May 1881.
  • Natorp, Gustav. 3 letters from RB. 1881–88.
  • Nettleship, John Trivett. Letter from RB. 17 June 1870.
  • Nettleship, John Trivett. 4 letters to RB. 1868–70.
  • Nicholson, Mrs. Letter from RB. 22 April 1887.
  • Osgood, James R. Letter from RB. 10 November 1875.
  • Paget, Violet. Letter to RB. [mid-October 1885].
  • Palgrave, Francis Turner. Letter from RB. 31 March 1863.
  • Palgrave, Francis Turner. Letter to RB. [ca. June] 1869.
  • Palmer, Sophia. Letter from RB. 6 July 1885.
  • Parry, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Letter from RB. 24 June 1881.
  • Paul, Kegan. Letter from RB. 13 January 1882.
  • Pennell, H. Cholmondeley. Letter from RB. 21 May 1869.
  • Peyton, Eliza. Letter from EBB. [ca. August 1832].
  • Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. 2 letters from RB. 7 June 1887 & 2 August 1889.
  • Pfeiffer, J. Edward. Letter from RB. [ca. August] 1882.
  • Pittar, J.J. 2 letters from RB. 9 & 15 December 1888.
  • Plowman, H. Letter from RB. 17 April 1879.
  • Pollock, Juliet. Letter from RB. 12 June 1866.
  • Potter, Robert. Letter to RB. 11 June 1878.
  • Priestley, Mrs. Letter from RB. 12 April 1879.
  • Prinsep, Valentine Cameron. Letter from RB. 2 September 1875.
  • Quilter, Mary Ann. Letter from RB. 14 March 1888.
  • Raffalovich, Marc André. 4 letters from RB. 1886–88.
  • Read, Charles. Letter from RB. 14 June 1877.
  • Reay, Lady. Letter from RB. 15 February 1882.
  • Reeve, Christina Georgina. Letter from RB. 4 December 1864.
  • Renten, Mr. Letter from RB. 15 April 1874.
  • Robinson, Agnes Mary Frances. 10 letters to RB. Dates unknown.
  • Roche, Emily. 3 letters from RB. 1877–78.
  • Rodin, Auguste. Letter to RB. 2 January 1883.
  • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. 2 letters to RB. 16 April 1856 & 24 May 1856.
  • Rossetti, William Michael. Letter from RB. 1 July 1869.
  • Ruskin, John. Letter from RB. 16 November 1866.
  • Russell, Mr. Letter from RB. 10 April 1864.
  • Sabine, Charles. Letter from RB. 9 September 1856.
  • Sadler, Thomas. Letter from RB. 25 June 1884.
  • Sartoris, Adelaide Kemble. Letter from RB. 26 May 1862.
  • Schlesinger, Henry. Letter from RB. 11 November 1880.
  • Schlesinger, Mary. Letter from RB. 27 December 1887.
  • Sharp, William. 3 letters to RB. Dates unknown.
  • Shedden-Ralston, William Ralston. Letter to RB. [mid-November] 1865.
  • Sherborne, Lady. Letter from RB. 1 July 1876.
  • Simpson, Mary Charlotte. Letter from RB. 15 January 1881.
  • Sitwell, Mrs. Letter from RB. 25 March 1886.
  • Smalley, George Washburn. Letter from RB. 8 June 1880.
  • Smalley, Mrs. George Washburn. 4 letters from RB. 1882–89.
  • Smith, Adam Clarke. Letter from RB. 5 December 1887.
  • Smith, Annie Egerton. Letter from RB. 21 September [1876].
  • Smith, Elizabeth. 2 letters from RB. 23 January 1871 & 3 March 1879.
  • Smith, George Murray. 2 letters from RB. [1871] & July 1880.
  • Smith, Laura Bullen. Letter from RB. 8 January 1887.
  • Spedding, James. Letter to RB. May 1867.
  • Spedding, Mrs. John. Letter from RB. 16 January 1874.
  • Spottiswoode, Mrs. 2 letters from RB. 5 February 1873 & 23 November 1875.
  • Stampe, George. Letter from RB. 26 January 1863.
  • Stanley, Augusta. Letter from RB. 23 November 1873.
  • Stephenson, A.J. Letter from RB. 25 October 1862.
  • Stibbard, Alice Elizabeth. Letter from RB. 1881.
  • Story, Edith Marion. Letter from RB. [ca. 30 October 1871].
  • Story, William Wetmore. Letter from RB. 26 July 1877.
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Letter from EBB. [?13 February 1860].
  • Stuart, Mr. Letter from RB. 22 March 1884.
  • Sturgis, Mrs. Russell. Letter from RB. 3 March 1863.
  • Sudeley, Lord & Lady. Letter from RB. 25 April 1887.
  • Swanwick, Anna. 2 letters from RB. 20 June 1880 & 13 April 1881.
  • Talfourd, Rachel. Letter from RB. [22 August 1844].
  • Talfourd, Thomas Noon. 3 letters from RB. 1836–52.
  • Taylor, Bayard. Letter from RB. 26 February 1867.
  • Tennyson, Alfred. Letter to EBB. 8 September [1852].
  • Tennyson, Alfred. Letter to RB. 21 October 1877.
  • Tennyson, Emily Sellwood. Letter from EBB. 9 August [1852].
  • Thompson, Elizabeth. Letter from RB. 26 May 1880.
  • Thompson, Henry. Letter from RB. 30 April 1889.
  • Thompson, Lady. 2 letters from RB. 13 February 1877 & 18 June 1881.
  • Thomson, William. 2 letters from RB. 9 May 1868 & 26 May 1868.
  • Thomson, William & Zoë. Letter from RB. 12 June 1877.
  • Thomson, Zoë. 2 letters from RB. 19 June 1868 & 21 July 1870.
  • Tree, Herbert Beerbohm. Letter to RB. 12 April 1887.
  • Trench, Richard Chenevix. 7 letters to RB. Dates unknown.
  • Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. Letter to RB. 25 June 1887.
  • Tuer, Andrew White. 2 letters from RB. 7 October 1888 & 8 June 1889.
  • Tweedy, Mary. Letter from EBB. [?3 November 1853].
  • Walrond, Mrs. Letter from RB. 12 December 1866.
  • Walton, G.L. Letter from RB. 1 February 1879.
  • Ward, Frederick Oldfield. Letter from RB. 16 October 1851.
  • Ward, Mrs. Humphry. Letter from RB. 1875.
  • Watts, George Frederic. Letter to RB. 8 April 1867.
  • Watts, George Frederic. Letter from RB. August 1875.
  • Webster, James Claude. Letter from RB. 17 May 1876.
  • Wedgwood, Mrs. Hensleigh. Letter from RB. 23 January 1864.
  • West, Elizabeth Dickinson. Letter to RB. [ca. October] 1881.
  • Wharncliffe, Lady. Letter from RB. 2 September 1886.
  • Williams, John Daniel. Letter from RB. 11 August 1888.
  • Woolner, Thomas. 2 letters from RB. 20 June 1872 & 12 May 1873.
  • Zimmern, Helen. 11 letters to RB. 1876–78.
  • Zimmern, Helen. Letter from RB. 8 May 1879.