![]() ![]() The Armstrong Browning Library was ultimately opened in 1951. The President of Baylor University nominated $1.75 million towards a building to house the collection on campus, on the understanding that Armstrong would raise the huge balance required for the completion of the project. Having become friendly with Browning’s son, Robert Barrett (Pen) Browning in Italy in 1909, he aspired to gather together a world-beating collection of the poet’s works, manuscripts, letters and related materials: and he fulfilled this obsessive self-imposed task with such indefatigable passion that by the 1940s he had assembled the best Browning collection in the world. Armstrong (1873–1954) had taught at Baylor since 1908, serving for forty years (1912–52) as Head of the Department of English Language and Literature. 1951, the anniversary of the poet’s death. Armstrong, of the Dept of English Language and Literature at Baylor University (a Baptist foundation) of Waco, Texas, with the request that he undertake to place a wreath on the tomb of Robert Browning in Westminster Abbey at 12.30 on 12 Dec. ![]() had been approached out of the blue on 17 Oct. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |