1742580339000 1716212754000 Standard Record object-110010123 1747160955756 1721214729000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010123 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010123 e20b0731-49d9-341e-b151-562e4421bfd7 1 person reference agent-60186 adlib-agent-60186 a98548df-668a-3e20-9a61-56d4597bc7aa Haworth, Euphrasia Fanny, Miss person reference agent-209865 adlib-agent-209865 280af53e-4e0c-30a4-9f80-b4134ed2e0e4 Eckley, Sophia person reference agent-189374 adlib-agent-189374 489333e0-2e45-3331-8025-ee912fae345e Landor, Walter Savage person reference agent-18959 adlib-agent-18959 39259c5a-4c1e-374d-9773-12b77ff96b14 Browning, Robert Length mm 245 Width mm 191 Leaf 1 Length mm 245 Width mm 192 Leaf 2 content description This is a letter written from Florence, Italy. In this letter, Barrett Browning is anguished because her sister is sick. The doctors pronounce it an anxious case and Barrett Browning would have liked to go to England to ‘hold her hand’ however realises it would be selfish to go as she is weak and the cold would make her ill in turn. She says her destiny is to be useless to those whom she loves; she receives thanks from strangers yet cannot even perform a trivial task for her sister. She comments on feedback on her poetry including from Mr Howitt. Barrett Browning says has fallen out with Sophia Eckley not because they have quarrelled but because she has changed her opinion of Eckley’s character. She now believes Eckley to be affected and was not impressed by her book ('The Oldest of the Old World'). Barrett Browning says that Haworth should not venture to Italy due to political situation. Of the Brownings' acquaintances: ‘Dear Isa Blagden is spending the summer in a rough cabin, a quarter of an hour’s walk from here’. The Storys and Walter Savage Landor are also close-by which makes it a kind of ‘colonisation’ of the English otherwise it is quiet which she likes. Robert Browning and Pen are strong and the latter is learning Latin. She praises what she hears of Thackeray’s article on spiritualism in Cornhill. Barrett Browning asks whether it would not be wiser for Haworth to get a pied a terre in England then make foreign excursions as she pleases. She has seen Haworth’s old suitor Giovanni Lotti and Landor is ‘very well’. This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 28, pp. 113–117. (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2022). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 4729. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/4/52 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/4/52 110010123 priref 110010123 old reference no. Browning(EB)/74 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010123 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010123 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1860 1860 August 25 [1860] 1860-08-25 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