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ROMANCE OF TWO POETS
When Elizabeth Barrett Eloped.
PATHETIC LETTERS TO HER FAMILY
INDUSTRY IN CANADA
Ownership And Control
Out of every $100.00 invested in Canadian manufacturing industry in 1933, $70.00 represents Canadian capital, $20.00 American capital, $10.00 British and other, capital.
In 1932, $833,293,135.00 was invested in American controlled and affiliated factories in Canada.. Of this 14.16 per
The runaway match of Robert Browning and, Elizabeth Barrett is one of the romances of English cent represented minority interest, literature. Any letters relating to chiefly Canadian. 30 per cent. of the investment) was in the the pair are always eagerly awaited American
Canadian pulp and paper industry, 80 by collectors, and they will
per cent. of whose exports go to the have full measure at Sotheby's when United States. the poetess's life-story will be re- In 1932, $1,236,074,555.00
in vested in American controlled or vealed by a long series addressed
affiliated mines, utility companies, and by her to her brother and sister, merchandising, companies in Canada. George and Arabel.
Veteran sale frequenters still talk of that remarkable dispersal, in the year before the war, of the love letters which passed between the poet and poetess. The price then fetched was £6,550.
was
Of this 28 per cent. represented minor- ity interest, chiefly Canadian, ests have acquired ownership or control In the last 13 years Canadian inter-
of at least fifty manufacturing_com- panies in Canada formerly American owned.
In proportion to Canada's wealth and population her direct investment în the will not Again the letters
be United States in factories, mines and divided. The 57 which were writ-public utilities is larger than American
investment in Canada. ten to George Barrett will be offer-
Excluding banks, brokers, insurance ed in one lot, and the 111 addressed and investment trusts, over 76 Cana- to Arabel will appear also undivid-dian companies maintain 188 branches ed. Each of the missives is signed and subsidiaries in the United States. These are subdivided as follows: Fac- by the pet-name "Ba," as she was tories 63; Mines and petroleum 17; always styled by her brothers and transportation and utilities 36; sales sisters.
and miscellaneous 22.
It was to her sister Arabel that Elizabeth Browning wrote the letter (from Paris, September 26, 1846) describing the flight from Wimpole- street the week before. She had al- ready written on September 17 to her brother George the letter an- nouncing her marriage to Robert Browning, a few days earlier.
WHEAT SUPPLIES
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Price Rise Factors
The" big change which has taken Breaking The News
place in the world wheat position dur- This historic letter is perhaps the ing the past two or three years is dis- most poignant of them all. In her cussed in the report on "Grain Crops,"
compiled by the Intelligence Branch of bewilderment the dates it "Thurs-the Imperial Economic Committee. day or Friday. We know that it This change has been brought about was posted in London on the day of by reduced supplies, and a consequent rise in prices during the current sea-- the elopement, September 19, 1846. She begs her brother to go to hiể room and to read the letter calmly Explaining how the affection be tween her and Browning had grown from strength to strength, she pro- ceeds to say:
When I believed that it would be a wrong to such a man to cast on him the burden of my sickly life, and to ruin him by his own generosity, his answer was, not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of men, but simply that he loved me. The letter closes thus:
son...
Three successive years of small crops in North America and the disastrous drought of 1936 facilitated the liquida- tion of stocks, which for years had con- tinually overhung the wheat market. A small crop was harvested in 1936 in certain European countries.
less than 14 million tons by August.
World stocks are' expected to total
In the United States an important change came about. Normally an ex- porter of wheat, that country has been an importer during the past two years.
There are, however, several factors which may adversely affect the position in the future. Higher prices have al ready, encouraged growers in Europe. and North America to devote a larger area to the cultivation of wheat and, George, dear George, read the given normal weather conditions, larger enclosed letter for my dearest crops may be expected this season.
With regard to Empire, trade, the Papa, and then, breaking gently exports of wheat and flour from Aus- the news of its contents, give it tralia and Canada were larger than the to him to read.
imports into the British Isles, and the When she was four years of age, tial surplus to sell in foreign countries. Empire as a whole had a very substan- Elizabeth wrote a letter to her grandmother, Mrs. Moulton, telling
how
Tientsin Smuggling
The other day Henrietta and I
Shanghai, To-day. took fought. I conquered,
her
A message from Tientain states prisoner and tied her to the leg that the average shortage of duties of the table..
-Our Own Correspondent.
Owing to smuggling is about No wonder that when she was 32,000,000 per month in the Office only 12 she wrote "The Battle of of the Tientsin Maritime Customs. Marathon,' the manuscript of which, on 94 pages, with a still ear lier version, is also to be gold.
Last Scene
. Of All The curtain falls on this drama tic series of letters and manuscripts when Robert Browning writes to George Barrett from Florence, on July 2, 1861, the day after the funeral of Mrs. Browning:
- In letters being sent by the Pope to the Queen of Italy with his gift of the Golden Rose she is addressed as Queer: of Italy and Empress of Abyssinia.
English poet of the day, and Italy's truest and dearest friends.
She was buried yesterday, with Mrs Browning had greatly trea- the shops in the street, shut, a red the gift to her from Ben- crowd of people following sob min Haydon of the originat bing, another crowd of Italiana, manuscript of the last 60 lines of American and English crying like
beautiful poem. “I stood children at the cemetery, for, they tip-toe upon a little hill.
This knew who she was greatest propriately ends the sale.