The Religious Opinions of Elizabeth Barrett Browning as Expressed in Three Letters Addressed to Wm. Merry, Esq., J.P.

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Limited edition of 30 copies. Vellum, small 4to, 22 cm, 28, [1] pp, Scarce. The volume prints, with a short introduction, the text of three letters from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to her correspondent William Merry dated between November 1843 and January 1844. The editor is W. Robertson Nicoll and the letters were printed also, about the same time, in Volume II of Thomas J. Wise and Nicoll's Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century. The final page of this separate printing carries the bookmark device of Thomas J. Wise's Ashley Library. Wise provides the background to the writing of the letters in his Bibliography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, quoting a letter Browning wrote to Richard Hengist Horne dated January 8th, 1844.'This morning I received a letter from Mr. Merry, of Stonefield, with, whom I do not regularly correspond, but who insisted, against my will, on my writing about his book on 'Predestination,' and when I did so, branched off himself into a collateral commentary on the English liturgy, in relation to certain supposed views of mine. I send you a leaf of his letter, the body of which refers to theological letters.'" Free endpapers darkened from contact with pastedowns, Boards a little darkened and fingersoiled, otherwise a Very Good unopened copy. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-58979

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