1742580336000 1714405003000 Standard Record object-110010042 1747160955739 1719854030000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010042 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010042 3ef81f73-d279-33dd-8b32-4520831e7619 1 person reference agent-166703 adlib-agent-166703 889773fd-c385-30b3-835f-66f1332fbcc7 Mitford, Mary Russell person reference agent-18959 adlib-agent-18959 39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14 Browning, Robert Length mm 157 Width mm 100 Leaf 2 Length mm 200 Width mm 157 Leaf 1 content description This letter is written from London, England. Barrett Browning begins the letter by discussing the Hedley family and the upcoming marriage of Arabella Hedley to James Bevan. She then goes onto discuss marriage, in particular love marriages, disagreeing with Miss Mitford’s view on love marriages. Barrett Browning asserts ‘the real love-marriages cannot end ill– The world will end sooner!’. She then discusses French writers, such as Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Frederic Soulié. In the final paragraph of the letter, Barrett Browning hints at her upcoming marriage to Robert Browning: ‘Ah—if you should be displeased with me & think me wrong in any act or word or thought, remember, to set against all, that I love you gratefully & affectionately, & that none of the changes of life can make me do it less. Be indulgent to me, to the end—I need all your indulgence & affectionateness!’. A transcript of this letter is available online via The Brownings' Correspondence Project, numbered 2518. It is also published in 'The Brownings' Correspondence' (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 1995), vol. 13, pp. 212–215. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/1/35 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/1/35 110010042 priref 110010042 old reference no. Browning(EB)/33 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010042 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010042 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1846 1846 [early August 1846] 1846-08-01 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford object OBJECT