Add MS 89408/1/95

Letters to Margaret Forster written after the publication of the books, mostly congratulating her on the books, commenting on them and on press reviews, and with mentions of the BBC Radio 4 programme by Margaret Forster on Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Jan 1989), from:

• Joseph Altham and Mary Altham (relatives of Surtees Cook), 1988.
• Elizabeth Berridge, 1988.
• Vivienne Browning (Elaine Baly), 1988-1989.
• Chatto & Windus, 1988.
• Doubleday regarding the jacket copy, of the U.S. edition publicity of the book and press reviews of the book, 1988-1989.
• Alethea Hayter, 1988.
• Alison Hennegan, 1988.
• Hope End Hotel, 1988.
• Philip Kelley at Wedgestone Press regarding the U.S edition of the book and comments from readers, 1989.
• Angela Leighton congratulating her on the book, undated.
• Edward McAleer congratulating her on the book, 1988.
• Edward Moulton-Barrett, 1988-1989.
• Portals, theatre production company, asking Margaret Forster to work on a new drama on the Brownings, with leaflet of their latest production, Oct 1988.
• Dr Alex Sakula regarding Elizabeth Barret browning's cause of death, with attached copy of an article about it, 1988-1989.
• A reader sending a photocopy of a then unpublished poem by Elizabeth, 1988.
• A reader asking for information about Elizabeth's room at Wimpole Street for a new production of the play, 1988.
• A reader/friend, Tony Palmer, congratulating her on the book, 1988.
• A reader asking for information on Sarah Goodin Barrett Moulton, 1991.
• A reader asking her for information on her grandmother who was in service in Venice with Pen Browning's household, 2 Sept 1994.

The file also includes: manuscript draft notes headed 'Questions to ask E.B.B.' and 'Notes on possible presentation of E.B.B.', for either the BBC Radio 4 programme or the Central Independent Televison film From the North to the South, for their arts series Contrasts, undated; manuscript draft headed 'EBB and the Women in her Life', 20 pages, undated; script for BBC Radio 4 programme 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning', written and presented by Margaret Forster, 1989; a photocopy of an interview with Margaret Forster about the book, Aug 1988; press release for the book The Poetical Works of Robert Browning (1988); press cuttings about proposals to site poultry houses on land at Hope End, 1988.