The pictured manuscript was copied out by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, perhaps around the time that Robert Browning gave it to Emily Patmore in 1852.  Robert Browning ultimately corrected A Face around 1864 before publishing the poem, and then later gave it to a friend, Mrs. Fitzgerald, in 1874. 

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11 Oct 1864

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