{"id":916,"date":"2012-02-14T17:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=916"},"modified":"2012-02-14T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T17:59:12","slug":"happy-valentines-day-the-love-letters-of-barrett-browning-go-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2012\/02\/14\/happy-valentines-day-the-love-letters-of-barrett-browning-go-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentines Day! The Love Letters of Barrett, Browning Go Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/02\/Thomas_B._Read_American_1822-1872_-_Portraits_of_Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning_and_Robert_Browning.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-918\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/02\/Thomas_B._Read_American_1822-1872_-_Portraits_of_Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning_and_Robert_Browning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a>WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) \u2014 &#8220;I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss\u00a0Barrett &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So begins the first love letter to 19th-century poet\u00a0Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet\u00a0Robert Browning.<\/p>\n<p>Their 573 love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming love and their forbidden marriage, have long fascinated scholars and poetry fans. Though transcriptions of their correspondence have been published in the past, the handwritten letters could be seen only at\u00a0Wellesley College, where the collection has been kept since\u00a01930.<\/p>\n<p>But starting Tuesday, Valentine&#8217;s Day, their famous love letters are available online, where readers can see them just as they were written \u2014 with creased paper, fading ink, quill pen cross-outs, and even the\u00a0envelopes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/news\/article\/Browning-Barrett-letters-Devotion-goes-digital-3320822.php#ixzz1mNb9WBj0\">http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/news\/article\/Browning-Barrett-letters-Devotion-goes-digital-3320822.php#ixzz1mNb9WBj0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.baylor.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/ab-letters\">Digital Collection<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wellesley.edu\/rare\/2011\/11\/03\/browning-love-letters-digitized\/\">Wellesley College\u2019s Browning Love Letters have been digitized<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browningguide.org\/\">The Brownings: A Research Guide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLESLEY, Mass. (AP) \u2014 &#8220;I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss\u00a0Barrett &#8230;&#8221; So begins the first love letter to 19th-century poet\u00a0Elizabeth Barrett from her future husband, fellow poet\u00a0Robert Browning. Their 573 love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming love and their forbidden marriage, have long fascinated scholars and poetry fans. Though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news","7":"category-digitization","8":"category-manuscripts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}