1742580339000 1716307400000 Standard Record object-110010146 1747160956370 1721317291000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110010146 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010146 77a76f1a-180c-3015-9603-da2761a37817 1 person reference agent-189587 adlib-agent-189587 bdb516c5-2fc9-3cc4-9b67-8751f8adffc2 Blagden, Isa person reference agent-209857 adlib-agent-209857 a169b1e2-6030-32b5-be7d-5dd766fb651b Lytton, Robert Bulwer person reference agent-130913 adlib-agent-130913 471d45df-11dc-3ffc-bc86-c8c8b3c7bf6a Story, William Wetmore Length mm 225 Width mm 183 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Florence, Italy. Barrett Browning asks Blagden about apartments in Rome and says they have been frightened by the what they have heard of the ‘dearness’ of Rome prices. They missed Mr Thompson in Florence but hope to see him in Rome. They also received a card from Miss Lynch an ‘American poetess’. She says ‘Florence is full of great people, so called, from England’. Alfred Tennyson is coming. Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray are to go to Rome in the winter. There is further commentary on Robert Lytton whom she praises. His father is coming out with a poetry collection Cornflowers. She discusses her reading of Swedenbourg. They have heard ‘‘Trovatore,’ Verdi’s new work. Very passionate & dramatic, surely’. There is a mention of the Storys and her desire to ‘convert’ Blagden (who dislikes Mrs Story). Pen wants to go to Rome. In postscript, she writes: ‘If Charlotte Agassiz does not stay in England to be married, bona fide, her conduct is inexplicable. Yes, I know Mr Westwood—that is by correspondence—not personally.’ This letter has been transcribed in 'The Brownings' Correspondence', vol. 19, p. 321–323 (Kansas: Wedgestone Press, 2012). It is transcribed online via The Brownings' Correspondence project, numbered 3277. GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/18 1 accession number GBR/280/MS.1.R-1917/5/18 110010146 priref 110010146 old reference no. Browning(EB)/153 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010146 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110010146 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1853 1853 Saturday. [Postmark: 22 October 1853] 1853-10-22 reference agent-164438 adlib-agent-164438 134c98ee-69a6-3752-982b-477276489b51 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett MS Letter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden object OBJECT