Show ROBERT BROWNING The Poet is Laid to Rest in the Mecca of English Authors LONDON Dec 31The funeral services over the remains of Robert Browning took place at Westminster abbey today The body was placed in a polished pine coffin on which was a small brass plate bearing the dates of his birth and death Wreaths from Tennyson and Miss Browning were placed on the coffin Wreaths were sent by many other persons inc uding Henry Irving Bancroft Sir John Millais Alma Tameda and Sir Theodore Martin The dense fog which enveloped London today completely hid the cortege as it moved t I the abbey The sacred structure was crowded with friends and admirers of the dead poet After the services at the altar the coffin was borne t the poets corner iu the south transept The grave is in front of Abraham Cowleys monument within the angle marked by Longfellows bust The monuments of Chaucer Edmund I Spenser Ben Jonson Milton Matthew Prior and Thomas Gray adorn the walls near by The floor about the grave was covered with black carpet and the walls wals were hidden by a profusion of rare exotics white pink and purple |