1742580336000 1715964751000 Standard Record object-110010119 1747160955723 1720179236000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010119 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010119 d30a95c7-d2c0-33b8-a57b-23e0c416d4be 1 person reference agent-60186 adlib-agent-60186 a98548df-668a-3e20-9a61-56d4597bc7aa Haworth, Euphrasia Fanny, Miss person reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett person reference agent-209848 adlib-agent-209848 79523e6a-6a3c-30b6-bdb1-9d9c7ce8dece Barrett Browning, Robert Wiedeman Length mm 196 Width mm 124 Leaf 2 Length mm 196 Width mm 125 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Rome, Italy. In this letter, Barrett Browning comments on Mr. Scammon. She says that Pen is enjoying the pony, learning music and Latin. One of the Story children will also be instructed. Pen asks why Barrett Browning cannot teach him but Robert Browning thinks it is better if she does not, ‘and I must’nt give up my own work & life in art quite, for what another can do perhaps better than I’. She asks how Haworth gets on in the galleries and what pictures she is working on. She says Mr and Mrs Cartwright are in Rome so Robert Browning is a little happier. The political situation is quite different from last year. The Atlantic Monthly and Thackeray on behalf of Cornhill have written asking for poems. Robert Browning is averse and will likely remain so. Barrett Browning asks whether Haworth has tried Chambers again and that one of her stories has been published in America. She then turns to the subject of spiritualism: Mrs Crowe’s book and whether Haworth has heard anything of Daniel Douglas Hume. She knows Theodore Parker does not believe in the spirits being an ‘off shoot of Kant’s mind’ nonetheless she prefers American sceptics to English sceptics. She cannot find subjects for Haworth out of Idylls of the King. She also comments 'Work, work, work—it is the secret of happiness. Anything that calls off this poor me from this poor me– Anything that raises us from this wretched mud into the clean sphere of abstract thought’. This is an incomplete letter; the remainder is held by Scripps College. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 27, pp. 70–72. (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2020). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4540. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/4/48 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/4/48 110010119 priref 110010119 old reference no. Browning(EB)/76 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010119 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010119 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1859 1859 Dec. 9–[1859] 1859-12-09 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Euphrasia Fanny Haworth object OBJECT